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Fertility Decline in Algeria 1980-2006 : A Case Study

World Bank - 2010

Like other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, Algeria has undergone a demographic transition. But … Algeria's fertility decline defies conventional explanation. Despite inauspicious starting conditions-a high total fertility … rate, reluctant policy environment, and delayed implementation of a national family planning program-Algeria has surpassed …

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Trust to pay? : tax morale and trust in Africa

Kouamé, Wilfried A. K. - 2019

African countries: Algeria, Ghana, Morocco, and Nigeria. First, the paper provides theoretical foundations of such a …

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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics

Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...

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Implications of cheap oil for emerging markets

Kabundi, Alain; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2020

The COVID-19-triggered collapse in oil prices in March and April 2020 was the seventh, and by far the most severe, in a series of such collapses since 1970. This paper, first, compares this most recent collapse and its drivers with previous ones in an event study. It finds that it was associated...

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Middle East and North Africa Quarterly Economic Brief, January 2015 : Plunging Oil Prices

Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2015 - Online-Ausg.

In the three months since most observers, including the World Bank, issued their last forecasts, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region has changed substantially. Political tensions have eased somewhat with presidential and legislative elections completed in a few countries. Egypt's...

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Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence

Cordella, Tito - 2016

This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...

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Sources of Volatility during Four Oil Price Crashes

Baffes, John - 2015

Previous sharp oil price declines have been accompanied by elevated ex post volatility. In contrast, volatility was much less elevated during the oil price crash in 2014/15. This paper provides evidence that oil prices declined in a relatively measured manner during 2014/15, with dispersion of...

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A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space

Kose, M Ayhan - 2017

This paper presents a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space, broadly defined as the availability of budgetary resources for a government to service its financial obligations. The database covers up to 200 countries over the period 1990-2016, and includes 28 indicators of fiscal...

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Impact of Oil Price Fluctuations on Financial Markets since 2014

Nguyen, Ha - 2017

This paper investigates the causal impact of oil price fluctuations on financial markets since January 2014. Following a heteroscedasticity-based event study approach, the paper instruments changes in oil prices by exogenous shocks in oil supply. It finds that oil price declines raise...

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