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, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically …
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This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of cyclicality in the fiscal policy stance of developing and industrialized countries over a period of more than three decades covering 180 countries during 1980?2012. First, the paper considers issues of robustness in the choice of the proxy for...
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Ethiopia has experienced a growth acceleration over the past decade on the back of an economic strategy emphasizing public infrastructure investment and supported by heterodox macro-financial policies. To analyze the country?s growth performance during 2000?13, the paper employs a neoclassical...
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This paper examines causes and consequences of corruption within the process of economic development. It starts by reviewing some of the factors that, over the past couple of decades, have transformed corruption from a subject on the sidelines of economic research to a central preoccupation of...
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This paper studies the sustainability of early childhood education centers established under a large-scale, donor …-funded project in rural Indonesia. Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data shows that 86 percent of the centers continued to … student fees. The paper estimates a series of logistic regression models to predict center sustainability. Centers that …
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This paper analyzes the trends and evolution of public spending in the agriculture sector in Indonesia, as well as the … public spending on fertilizer subsidies had the opposite effect. The composition of spending patterns in Indonesia over the … findings about the impact of overall public spending on growth, with a particular focus on Indonesia, followed by an analysis …
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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 developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these processes in the coming decades. Due to their initial poverty and their relatively high dependence on environmental capital for their livelihoods, the poor are likely to suffer...
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This paper reviews dynamic general equilibrium models in order to collect insights on the interaction between economic growth and environmental issues. The authors discuss the Ramsey model and extend it for natural resource inputs and pollution, as well as for endogenous technical change. Green...
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One of the key environmental problems facing India is that of particle pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels. This has serious health consequences and with the rapid growth in the economy these impacts are increasing. At the same time, economic growth is an imperative and policy makers...
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