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Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?
Bleaney, Michael - 2017
Fiscal indicators for resource-rich and resource-poor low- and middle-income countries are compared using annual data from 1996 to 2012. Resource richness is defined by export composition: fuel greater than a 25 percent share and/or ores and metals greater than a 10 percent share. Fuel exporters...
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How Do Governments Respond after Catastrophes? Natural-Disaster Shocks and the Fiscal Stance
Melecky, Martin - 2017
Natural disasters could constitute a major shock to public finances and debt sustainability because of their impact on output and the need for reconstruction and relief expenses. This paper uses a panel vector autoregressive model to systematically estimate the impact of geological, climatic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976164
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Increasing Public Expenditure Efficiency in Oil-Rich Economies : A Proposal
Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2017
scope for introducing it in some of Africa's new oil producers …
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African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment
Kotsadam, Andreas - 2017
hurting women?s labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of …
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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 inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …
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Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?
Addison, Tony - 2017
exogenous variation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price boom … China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …
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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
Zouhon Bi, Simplice G. - 2016
This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
Zouhonbi, Simplice G - 2020
This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830035
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Of Governance and Revenue : Participatory Institutions and Tax Compliance in Brazil
Touchton, Michael Ryan - 2019
Traditionally, governments seek to mobilize tax revenues by expanding their enforcement of existing tax regimes and facilitating tax payments. However, enforcement and facilitation can be costly and produce diminishing marginal returns if citizens are unwilling to pay their taxes. This paper...
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Containing Volatility : Windfall Revenues for Resource-Rich Low-Income Countries
Dobronogov, Anton - 2017
An abundance of natural resources is both an opportunity and a challenge for developing countries. Several resource-rich, low-income countries receive amounts of foreign aid that are similar to or larger than their actual or potential revenues from natural resources. In such countries, the...
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