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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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Losing the Gains of the Past : The Welfare and Distributional Impacts of the Twin Crises of 2014 in Iraq

World Bank - 2015

Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by Islamic State militants. Since June 2014, crude oil prices per barrel have fallen from around 112 USD to 97 USD in September and 62 USD by December. Given Iraq's...

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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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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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The Distributive Impact of Terms of Trade Shocks

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017

The halving of oil prices, which happened in a short period between late 2014 and the first months of 2015, has generated major terms of trade losses for oil exporting countries. Even if the oil producing sector normally employs a small group of workers and oil export revenues tend to be...

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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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Losing the Gains of the Past : The Welfare and Distributional Impacts of the Twin Crises in Iraq 2014

Krishnan, Nandini - 2016

Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The severity and recurrent nature of these crises demand a fast understanding and quantification of their...

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