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The Impact of China?S Slowdown on the Asia Pacific Region : An Application of the Gvar Model
Inoue, Tomoo - 2017
An export-oriented development strategy fostered the Asia Paci?c region?s economic success, making it the fastest … demand from China boosted intraregional trade in Asia. Although China?s Asian trading partners bene?t from increasing exports …
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Does Energy Efficiency Promoteeconomic Growth? : Evidence from a Multi-Country and Multi-Sector Panel Data Set
Rajbhandari, Ashish - 2017
This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954323
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Growth and Competitiveness as Factors of Eurozone External Imbalances : Evidence and Policy Implications
Diaz Sanchez, Jose Luis - 2017
The paper assesses the contribution of key factors associated with external imbalances in the Eurozone through the estimation of a panel-data vector autoregressive model over 1975-2011. Growth fluctuations, initially associated with demand booms triggered by unusually low interest rates and...
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Diversification, Growth, and Volatility in Asia
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2017
extended period, developing Asia has on average been particularly successful in diversifying its exports, particularly in … is, through entry into completely new products. In addition, developing Asia has on average benefited significantly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971321
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Trade Integration in East Asia : The Role of China and Production Networks
Haddad, Mona - 2016
integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … international specialization. International production fragmentation in East Asia has intensified intraregional trade but has … significantly to growth in East Asia, they also breed vulnerabilities. They have not automatically led to technology spillovers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747815
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Seasonality of Rural Finance
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
Simultaneity of borrowing, withdrawal of savings, and loan defaults due to the pronounced seasonality of agriculture often leads to investment failure of rural financial institutions. Lack of borrowing leads to lack of income- and consumption-smoothing, and in turn, causes inefficient resource...
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Can Social Safety Nets Alleviate Seasonal Deprivation? Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
This paper examines the role of social safety-net programs in Bangladesh run by the government and nongovernmental organizations to mitigate seasonal deprivation in the country's highly vulnerable northwest region. Specifically, the paper explores whether social safety nets are limited to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975669
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Seasonality in Local Food Markets and Consumption : Evidence from Tanzania
Kaminski, Jonathan - 2020
This paper revisits the extent of seasonality in African livelihoods. It uses 19 years of monthly food prices from 20 markets and three years of nationally representative household panel surveys from Tanzania. Trigonometric specifications are introduced to measure the seasonal gap. When samples...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855826
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The End of Seasonality? New Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
Kaminski, Jonathan - 2020
This paper revisits the extent of seasonality in African livelihoods, which has disappeared from Africa's development debate. Through econometric analysis of monthly food price series across 100 locations in three countries during 2000-12, it is shown that seasonal movements in maize wholesale...
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Business Cycles Accounting for Paraguay
Hnatkovska, Viktoria V. - 2017
This study investigates the role of domestic and external shocks in business cycle fluctuations in Paraguay during 1991?2012. Time-series methods and a structural model-based approach are used to conduct an integrated analysis of business cycles. First, structural vector autoregression is used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971670