Similar Search Results

Vézina, Pierre-Louis - 2020

Countries that strike it rich when exploring for oil and gas often fail to see growth materialize. This paper shows that one way things can get messy is via squandering new wealth, based on future resource revenues, on arms imports. In the five years following a giant oil or gas discovery, arms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297208

Latin American growth : a trade perspective

Torre, Augusto de la; Ize, Alain - 2019

This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051845

How did Africa's prospective petroleum producers fall victim to the presource curse?

Mihalyi, David; Scurfield, Thomas - 2020

This paper reviews resource sector developments in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that made their first (major) petroleum discoveries during the most recent commodity boom. The analysis, which goes back to 2001, looks at sector forecasts of international organizations, governments, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296919

Natural resource discoveries, citizen expectations and household decisions

Cust, James; Mensah, Justice Tei - 2020

Major oil and gas discoveries are often associated with excitement and jubilation among citizens and government officials. But the extent to which discoveries substantially alter citizen expectations about economic conditions in a country remains an open question. The paper combines...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297222

Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?

Bleaney, Michael F. - 2016

Fiscal indicators for resource-rich and resource-poor low- and middle-income countries are compared using annual data from 1996 to 2012. Resource richness is defined by export composition: fuel greater than a 25 percent share and/or ores and metals greater than a 10 percent share. Fuel exporters...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246484

Fiscal Management in Resource-Rich Countries : Essentials for Economists, Public Finance Professionals, and Policy Makers

Ossowski, Rolando - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245250

Female Entrepreneurs : How and Why Are They Different?

Carranza, Eliana - 2018

This paper reviews and critically evaluates existing evidence on female entrepreneurial activity. First, we identify how female-run businesses are different, by examining both economic and non-economic outcomes which are frequently overlooked. Second, we offer a comprehensive discussion of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645804

Women's Entrepreneurship : How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?

Meunier, Frederic - 2017

This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group …'s Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the …. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245521

Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs : A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. This study tests this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya. The experiment randomizes business training at the market...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246348

Female Entrepreneurship in Turkey : Patterns, Characteristics, and Trends

Okten, Cagla - 2015

understanding of female entrepreneurship in Turkey by analyzing the patterns and characteristics of female entrepreneurs and …-demographic characteristics such as education, marital status, number of children, and urban or rural location on gender gap in entrepreneurship … children increases the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Perhaps surprisingly, living in an urban area also increases the gender …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246679