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growth. A summary of what we learn from the econometric results concludes the paper …
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competitiveness and growth prospects of a range of economic sectors (such as tourism and trade) that depend critically on a stable and … integration within the South Africa Customs Union (SACU) sub-region with attendant consequences for the long-term growth of …
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This paper discusses the analytical foundations of international comparisons for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. The paper presents the Stochastic Frontier approach and applies it to estimate feasible frontiers or...
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Using an quot;event-studyquot; methodology, this paper analyzes the aftermath of civil war in a cross-section of countries. It focuses on those experiences where the end of conflict marks the beginning of a relatively lasting peace. The paper considers 41 countries involved in internal wars in...
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to promote Caribbean tourism. This has led to suboptimal routing based on distorting subsidy schemes with often …
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level of debt is reached in sample, beyond which (initial) debt ends up lowering (subsequent) growth. On average … present value reaches 40 percent of GDP or 140 percent of exports. Second, the authors depart from reduced form growth …
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growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender … in the growth-gender inequality relationship. The results confirm that greater gender inequality is strongly associated … with lower economic growth. However, this negative relationship between gender inequality and growth is entirely due to the …
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relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and …
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the contribution of the ecosystem to the economy and finds that changes in tourism and bushmeat hunting have surprisingly …
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and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism … of Caribbean tourism and it is the first paper to examine the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for …
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