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Criss-Crossing Globalization : Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2014

This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services …

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Does Oil Revenue Crowd Out Other Tax Revenues? Policy Lessons for Uganda

Tsoungui Belinga, Vincent De Paul; Melou, Maximillien Kaffo - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon revenues using a probabilistic panel model with data covering 30 resource-rich countries over 1992-2012. It also discusses policy implications for Uganda, a country with recently discovered oil reserves. The findings...

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Macroeconomic Effects of Terms-of-Trade Shocks : The Case of Oil-Exporting Countries

Spatafora, Nikola - 2017

The authors investigate the impact on economic growth and development of long-run movements in the external terms of trade, with special reference to the experience of 18 oil-exporting countries between 1973 and 1989. They argue that this sample approximates a controlled experiment for examining...

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Impact of Export Destinations on Firm Performance

Cebeci, Tolga - 2017

This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … comparing the performance of firms that export to low-income destinations and high-income destinations with firms that do not … export. A combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences methods are employed on a rich set of firm …

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Does the Elimination of Export Requirements in Special Economic Zones Affect Export Performance? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Defever, Fabrice - 2017

feature export share requirements. That is, firms located in these zones are obliged to export more than a certain stated … Organization. This paper exploits the staggered removal of export requirements across products and over time in the special … by the elimination of export requirements. The findings show that entry increased among firms in special economic zones …

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Evidence for a Presource Curse? Oil Discoveries, Elevated Expectations, and Growth Disappointments

Cust, James Frederick - 2017

Oil discoveries can constitute a major positive and exogenous shock to economic activity, but the resource curse hypothesis would suggest they might also be detrimental to growth over the long run. This paper utilizes a new methodology for estimating growth underperformance to examine the extent...

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The Political Economy of Direct Dividend Transfers in Resource-Rich Countries : A Theoretical Consideration

McGuirk, Eoin - 2017

The acceleration of natural resource discoveries across many parts of the developing world has highlighted the urgent need for solutions to the mismanagement of windfalls that has blighted many countries over the past half-century. One proposal involves distributing annually a share of resource...

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

Bleaney, Michael - 2017

from 1996 to 2012. Resource richness is defined by export composition: fuel greater than a 25 percent share and/or ores and …

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Budget Rules and Resource Booms : A Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Analysis

Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2017

This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze and derive simple budget rules in the face of volatile public revenue from natural resources in a low-income country like Niger. The simulation results suggest three policy lessons or rules of thumb. When a resource...

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Demystifying Dutch Disease

Kojo, Naoko C. - 2017

This paper examines the theory of Dutch disease and its implications for practical policy questions. Dutch disease is a term that is well-known to economists and development practitioners. But it is also a concept that is often conflated with "resource curse" and misinterpreted as a "disease"...

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