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What Does MFN Trade Mean for India and Pakistan? Can MFN Be a Panacea?

De, Prabir - 2017

India and Pakistan, the two largest economies in South Asia, share a common border, culture and history. Despite the … benefits of proximity, the two neighbors have barely traded with each other. In 2011, trade with Pakistan accounted for less … than half a percent of India's total trade, whereas Pakistan's trade with India was 5.4 percent of its total trade. However …

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Pro-Growth Equity : A Policy Framework for the Twin Goals

López-Calva, Luis F. - 2017

Growth is an important channel for poverty reduction. Policies to make growth more "inclusive" have permeated the development debate and "pro-poor growth" has been the subject of a wide range of papers in the literature, including issues related to measurement, modeling, and policy. However, the...

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Ethiopia?S Growth Acceleration and How to Sustain It?Insights from a Cross-Country Regression Model

Moller, Lars Christian - 2017

Ethiopia has experienced a growth acceleration over the past decade on the back of an economic strategy emphasizing public infrastructure investment and supported by heterodox macro-financial policies. To analyze the country?s growth performance during 2000?13, the paper employs a neoclassical...

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Transitioning from Low-Income Growth to High-Income Growth : Is There a Middle Income Trap?

Bulman, David J. - 2017

Is there a "middle income trap" ? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels, they...

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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa

Yusuf, Shahid - 2018

With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...

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Banking Sector Stability, Efficiency, and Outreach in Kenya

Beck, Thorsten - 2017

Although Kenya's financial system is by far the largest and most developed in East Africa and its stability has improved significantly over the past years, many challenges remain. This paper assesses the stability, efficiency, and outreach of Kenya's banking system, using aggregate, bank-level,...

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Industrial Policy, Information, and Government Capacity

Maloney, William F.; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2017

Governments are resource and bandwidth constrained, and hence need to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To do so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to redress them successfully on the other. The paper reviews...

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Toward Economic Diversification in Trinidad and Tobago

Longmore, Rohan - 2017

This paper contributes to the predominant diversification debate that has been ongoing in Trinidad and Tobago for more than three decades. The paper makes a determination of the key impediments to the country's attempts at diversification. Econometric techniques are applied on panel data to...

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All in the Family : State Capture in Tunisia

Rijkers, Bob - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between entry regulation and the business interests of former President Ben Ali's family using firm-level data from Tunisia. Connected firms account for a disproportionate share of aggregate employment, output and profits, especially in sectors subject to...

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The Implementation of Industrial Parks : Some Lessons Learned in India

Saleman, Yannick - 2017

Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This...

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