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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit … macroeconomic front, priorities include shoring up fiscal positions, keeping adequate foreign reserves, and strengthening policy … risks. Structural policy priorities include investment in human capital and infrastructure to offset the decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839626
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Egypt Beyond the Crisis : Medium-Term Challenges for Sustained Growth
Herrera, Santiago - 2017
The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976332
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957710
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Partially Awakened Giants : Uneven Growth in China and India
Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2016
The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … and development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747908
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Human Capital and Macro-Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence
Rossi, Federico - 2018
This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907704
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Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective
Geiger, Michael Tobias - 2019
those areas should remain the policy focus over the longer term, but that near-term priority should be given to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895208
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Financial Development, Growth, and Crisis : Is There a Trade-Off?
Loayza, Norman - 2017
monetary policy frameworks that monitor the growth of credit and asset prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943988
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Growth after War in Syria
Devadas, Sharmila - 2019
This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865082
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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty
Cruz, Marcio - 2017
Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968199
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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
Enache, Maria - 2017
This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968717