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. Outside lenders are pushed from the periphery debt markets because of currency risk. The model generates a pattern of debt …
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This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock …
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. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the …
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Infrastructure made a net contribution of just over two percentage points to Botswana's improved per capita growth … boost annual growth by about 1.2 percentage points. Botswana has made significant infrastructure progress in recent years … and load shedding. Botswana's international transport connections and Internet connectivity also lag behind those of …
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This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976285
This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question ? how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World...
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This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and 1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country-level characteristics explain only 10?25 percent of...
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Does research add value to aid? Specifically, does impact evaluation research help or hinder the delivery of development projects? This paper analyzes the question by constructing a new data set of 100 impact evaluations and 1,135 projects approved by the World Bank between 2005 and 2011. The...
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