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Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence

Cordella, Tito - 2017

This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...

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How Regional Integration and Transnational Energy Networks Have Boosted FDI in Turkey (and May Cease to Do so) : A Case Study: How Geo-Political Alliances and Regional Networks Mat...

Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo - 2017

Turkey has historically struggled to attract foreign investors. This paper argues that not only macroeconomic and political stability, but also regional integration explains the upsurge in foreign direct investment observed since 2005. The analysis draws from a qualitative framework. It...

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Returns to Education in Azerbaijan : Some New Estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente A. - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns to schooling are 6 percent for men and 8 percent for women, even …

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When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses …

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South Caucasus in Motion : Economic and Social Mobility in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

Tiwari, Sailesh - 2018

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of economic and social mobility in countries in the South Caucasus by complementing available household survey data in each of the countries in the subregion with other sources, such as the Life in Transition Survey (2016). The first part of the paper...

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Azerbaijan's Household Survey Data : Explaining Why Inequality is so Low

Ersado, Lire - 2016

While the Azerbaijan household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data satisfy most empirical regularities expected … extremely low even with the standard of countries generally considered as most equal in the world. Azerbaijan, a transitional … paper is to investigate why inequality measures are unusually low in the Azerbaijan household survey data. The author …

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Creating a Poverty Map for Azerbaijan

Baschieri, Angela; Falkingham, Jane; Hornby, Duncan; … - 2014

indices, using existing census data. This paper develops a set of poverty maps for Azerbaijan that can be used by different … welfare in Azerbaijan, this paper has also produced a digital census map of Azerbaijan. This involved matching the census … enumeration areas to a digital settlement map of Azerbaijan. Therefore, it is now possible for the State Statistical Committee of …

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The 2014-16 Oil Price Collapse in Retrospect : Sources and Implications

Stocker, Marc - 2018

With the benefit of hindsight, this paper provides a fresh and comprehensive look at the causes of the 2014-16 collapse in oil prices and its impact on the global economy. It disentangles the contribution of supply and demand factors, assesses the impact on activity in oil exporters and oil...

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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? Evidence from Remote Sensing

Do, Quy-Toan - 2017

Accurately measuring oil production in low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist organizations and insurgencies -- including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh -- tap oil as a revenue source. Understanding spatial and temporal variation in production in...

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Lifting Economic Sanctions on Iran : Global Effects and Strategic Responses

Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017

This paper uses a global general equilibrium simulation model to quantify the effects of lifting economic sanctions on Iran with and without strategic responses. Iran benefits the most, with average per capita welfare gains ranging from close to 3 percent, in the case when Iran's crude oil...

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