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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017
Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic … effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on the Levant. Syria and Iraq bear the brunt of the direct … Syria and Iraq doubles the welfare losses. All these countries are foregoing opportunities to expand intra-Levant trade and …
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Growth after War in Syria
Devadas, Sharmila - 2019
This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865082
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Egypt Beyond the Crisis : Medium-Term Challenges for Sustained Growth
Herrera, Santiago - 2017
The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis...
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"Small Miracles"-- Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy : World Development Report 2015
Demeritt, Allison - 2017
One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing...
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Escaping the Capability Trap : Turning"Small"Development Into"Big"Development
Campos, J. Edgardo - 2017
The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973696
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How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?
Woolcock, Michael - 2017
The consensus among scholars and policymakers that "institutions matter" for development has led inexorably to a conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical step has not yet been taken, which is to recognize...
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Is the New Political Economy Relevant to Developing Countries?
Lachler, Ulrich - 2017
Protectionism and industrial regulation are two topics in which the interplay of politics and economics is so strong that one wonders why the intellectual merger between the two approaches in the New Political Economy has taken so long. After describing the emergence of the state in Western...
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How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Hanmer, Lucia - 2018
Data collected for refugee registration and to target humanitarian assistance include information about household composition and demographics that can be used to identify gender-based vulnerabilities. This paper combines the microdata collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? Evidence from Remote Sensing
Do, Quy-Toan - 2017
Accurately measuring oil production in low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist organizations and insurgencies -- including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh -- tap oil as a revenue source. Understanding spatial and temporal variation in production in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944258
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What are the Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Host Community Welfare in Turkey? A Subnational Poverty Analysis
Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017
In recent years, Turkey has been host to more than two million Syrians seeking refuge. Initially concentrated in the southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many questions from policy makers regarding the impact of the population of Syrians Under...
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