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Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment : China Versus the Rest of the World
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China … institutions and its economic track record. Institutions clearly determine a country's allure as an FDI destination, but standard … that China's FDI inflow is inefficiently large because weak institutions deter domestic investment while special …
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Determinants of Value-Added Tax Revenues
Bogetic, Zeljko - 2011
An early cross-country, empirical analysis of value-added tax revenues on a sample of 34 countries estimates a model that can be used to predict revenues in countries contemplating the introduction of the VAT. It also confirms conventional wisdom from theoretical and case studies. The key...
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The Use of Willingness to Pay Experiments : Estimating Demand for Piped Water Connections in Sri Lanka
Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.; van den Berg, Caroline; Yang, … - 2014
The authors show how willingness to pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services. They do this by presenting a case-study from Sri Lanka, where they surveyed approximately 1,800 households in 2003. Using multivariate regression, they show...
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The Creation of the Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Property Rights : The Political and Economic Consequences of a Corrupt Privatization
Hoff, Karla; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2006
legal reform may not emerge because the expectation of weak legal institutions increases the expected relative return to …
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Measuring Human Capital in Europe and Central Asia
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Torre, Iván - 2020
This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand higher levels of human capital than in the past. As the...
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Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas
Gallego, Francisco A. - 2010
of labor and created extractive institutions, while "good" activities created inclusive institutions. The authors show …
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district...
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
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Reverse Mortgages, Financial Inclusion, and Economic Development : Potential Benefit and Risks
Knaack, Peter - 2020
This paper examines the state of reverse mortgage markets in selected countries around the world and considers the potential benefits and risks of these products from a financial inclusion and economic benefit standpoint. Despite potentially increasing demand from aging societies -- combined...
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...
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