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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2017

This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...

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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

Hoff, Karla - 2017

This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...

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Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap : Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia

Arezki, Rabah - 2019

This paper documents the existence of a "middle-income trap" for the Middle East and North Africa region. It argues that the economic woes of the Middle East and North Africa offer new insights into the debate on the trap which has thus far focused on the East Asia and Pacific region. The...

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Technology Strategies for Low-Carbon Economic Growth : A General Equilibrium Assessment

Sue Wing, Ian - 2017

This paper investigates the potential for developing countries to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions without slowing their expected economic growth. A theoretical frame- work is developed that unifies bottom-up marginal abatement cost curves and partial equilibrium techno-economic simulation...

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Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, And"Development Traps"

Golub, Alexander - 2017

This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A simple specification is used in which the economy can...

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The State of Economics, the State of the World

Basu, Kaushik - 2017

the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … special attention to the rise of development economics. Given the challenges faced by the global economy in recent times, and … especially since 2008, it is time for a serious evaluation of economics for policy making. The paper comments on some potential …

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The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador

Seabold, Skipper - 2017

This study uses Twitter data to provide a more nuanced understanding of the public reaction to the 2011 reform to the propane gas subsidy in El Salvador. By soliciting a small sample of manually tagged tweets, the study identifies the subject matter and sentiment of all tweets during six...

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Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success?

Laborde, David - 2017

This paper views tariff-cutting formulas as a potential solution to the free-rider problem that arises when market opening is negotiated bilaterally and extended on a most-favored-nation basis. The negotiators in the Doha Agenda chose formulas that are ideal from an economic efficiency viewpoint...

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Strengthening Public Financial Management : Exploring Drivers and Effects

Fritz, Verena - 2017

This paper explores two relationships, first between country characteristics and the quality of public financial management (' drivers'), and second between the quality of public financial management systems and expected outcomes (' effects'). On the influence of country characteristics, the...

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Political Economy Aspects of Fuel Subsidies : A Conceptual Framework

Strand, Jon - 2017

While notoriously inefficient, fuel subsidies are widespread, and in many cases politically stable. This paper discusses and models various political economy aspects of fuel subsidies, focusing on gasoline and kerosene. Both economic and political are considered to explain differences in...

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