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This paper presents new evidence that cronyism reduces long-term economic growth by discouraging firms' innovation activities. The analysis is based on novel establishment survey data from The Arab Republic of Egypt which provides information on establishments' political connections, their...
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While the real sector and governments (along with a few micro economists) have long recognized the core economic role that the insurance function plays, the mainstream economics profession has largely treated it as invisible background. This literature review of the relevant research, most of...
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the baseline scenario, Russia's potential growth is expected to continue its gradual downward trend, from 1.5 percent in … Russia's potential growth rate to 3.0 percent by 2028. Under the assumptions discussed in the paper, pension reform … increase in Russia's potential growth rate. Potential growth is found to be most sensitive to changes in total factor …
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Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...
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This paper examines whether demands for bribes for particular government services are associated with expedited or delayed policy implementation. The "grease the wheels" hypothesis, which contends that bribes act as speed money, implies three testable predictions. First, on average, bribe...
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This study examines whether political empowerment of women affects their economic participation. In the context of mandated political representation reform for women in India, the study finds that the length of exposure to women politicians affects overall female labor force participation. These...
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Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...
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analysis for Ukraine, encompassing the revenue and expenditures components of the fiscal system, including direct and indirect … taxes, as well as direct, indirect, and in-kind transfers. The fiscal system in Ukraine has high redistribution effects … are the main contributor to the redistribution effect of fiscal policy. However, Ukraine stands out due to the relatively …
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' political connectedness and their economic performance in Ukraine. First, it estimates the share of politically connected firms … in Ukraine's economy. Second, the study looks at how different the performance of politically connected firms is from …
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emissions in Ukraine. However, large-scale deployment of energy efficient technologies has been constrained by several financial … industrial and commercial firms throughout Ukraine. The results from the survey were used in a cumulative multi-logit model to … to the adoption of energy efficiency measures in Ukraine. Institutional barriers particularly lack government policies …
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