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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2006
Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies
Laborde, David - 2019
In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food … intervention of many countries may exacerbate the volatility of world prices. Insulating policies introduced during the 2010 …-11 food price spike may have accounted for 40 percent of the increase in the world price of wheat and one-quarter of the …
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Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in an Open Economy : Evidence from Canada
Tsoungui Belinga, Vincent De Paul - 2017
What is the impact of fiscal policy shocks on key macroeconomic variables in Canada? This question triggered renewed interest in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Great Recession. Indeed, as in many advanced economies, fiscal policy in Canada following the recession started with an expansionary phase...
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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017
sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock …
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Funding vs. Real Economy Shock : The Impact of the 2007-2009 Crisis on Small Firms'Credit Availability
Berg, Gunhild - 2017
domestic demand. Therefore, a pure supply side shock con be contrasted with a real economy shock that hit exactly when the bank …'s funding position strengthened again. The paper finds that during the funding shock (potential) borrowers are discouraged from … shock, in contrast, reduces the approval likelihood for SME loans in particular, while agro and micro loans are considerably …
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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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When Instability Increases the Effectiveness of Aid Projects
Guillaumont, Patrick - 2016
The authors assess the effect of economic instability on the success of projects funded by the World Bank using the …
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Controls on Capital Inflows and External Shocks
David, Antonio C. - 2016
The author attempts to analyze whether price-based controls on capital inflows are successful in insulating economies against external shocks. He presents results from vector auto regressive (VAR) models that indicate that Chile and Colombia, countries that adopted controls on capital inflows,...
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On the International Transmission of Shocks : Micro-Evidence from Mutual Fund Portfolios
Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2017
Using micro-level data on mutual funds from different financial centers investing in equity and bonds, this paper analyzes how investors and managers behave and transmit shocks across countries. The paper shows that the volatility of mutual fund investments is quantitatively driven by investors...
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The"Resource Curse"In MENA? Political Transitions, Resource Wealth, Economic Shocks, and Conflict Risk
Ross, Michael L. - 2017
stability, and conflict risk; and third, to assess how prospective political transitions have implications for the World Bank …
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