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Klein, Michael U. - 2017

This essay first sets out the "business model" problems entailed by corruption and their effects as well as … corrupt practices. However, different economic policies can be pursued that are compatible with corruption. Some are more pro … resemble fairly orthodox economic policy prescriptions. Eventually the abolition of corruption holds the greatest promise to …

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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César - 2017

This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...

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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Galiani, Sebastian - 2017

The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...

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What are the Links between Aid Volatility and Growth?

Markandya, Anil - 2017

This paper adds to aid volatility literature in three ways: First it tests the validity of the aid volatility and growth relationship from various aspects: across different time horizons, by sources of aid, and by aid volatility interactions with country characteristics. Second, it investigates...

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The Right to Be Nudged? Rethinking Social and Economic Rights in the Light of Behavioral Economics

Gauri, Varun - 2019

Social and economic and rights are incorporated into many national constitutions, and courts in many countries are effectively and legitimately enforcing them. However, the large majority of rights rulings addresses the cost of goods and services and focuses exclusively on access. There is now...

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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks

Broccolini, Chiara - 2020

This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...

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Emerging and Developing Economies : Ten Years after the Global Recession

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020

Although emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the global recession a decade ago relatively well, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the room for monetary and fiscal policies to respond to...

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Accelerating Poverty Reduction in a Less Poor World : The Roles of Growth and Inequality

Olinto, Pedro - 2017

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country...

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Is Green Growth Good for the Poor?

Dercon, Stefan - 2017

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …

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Cotton, Biotechnology, and Economic Development

Baffes, John - 2017

toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper …

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