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Resource Rents, Political Institutions and Economic Growth
Elbadawi, Ibrahim Ahmed; Soto, Raimundo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2012
-rich Arab world to achieve sustained growth, the Arab spring should not only bring democracy, as badly needed as it is, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774230
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Diversification, Dutch Disease, and Economic Growth: Options for Uganda
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - CESifo - 2014
different from other oil-rich countries. In five main ways, all of which suggest the need for economic diversification as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093976
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Halfway Between the Midterm and the Finals: a Crash-course in Development Policy for Serbian Leaders
Malovic, Marko - In: Economic Analysis 45 (2012), pp. 1-13
Twelve years into transition process, Serbia doesn’t have consistent, if any, let alone coherent economic development policy. This review is therefore aimed at Serbian (and alike transition countries’) policy-makers and stake-holders in an effort to distill the ever-green lessons available...
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Rethinking the Effects of Financial Liberalization
Broner, Fernando; Ventura, Jaume - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
During the last few decades, many emerging markets have lifted restrictions on cross-border financial transactions. The conventional view was that this would allow these countries to: (i) receive capital in flows from advanced countries that would finance higher investment and growth; (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851384
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Pedal to the Metal: Structural Reforms to Boost Long-Term Growth in Mexico and Spur Recovery from the Crisis
Haugh, David; Redonda, Agustin - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
While Mexico’s growth performance has gradually improved over the past decades, its convergence toward OECD countries has been less rapid than in several other emerging markets. The recent significant reductions in import tariffs should help the economy take fuller advantage of trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498021
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Rethinking the Effects of Financial Liberalization
Broner, Fernando A; Ventura, Jaume - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
During the last few decades, many emerging markets have lifted restrictions on cross-border financial transactions. The conventional view was that this would allow these countries to: (i) receive capital inflows from advanced countries that would finance higher investment and growth; (ii) insure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784713
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Democracy and Economic Growth: Optimal Level and Transmission Channels
Mo, Pak Hung - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 10 (2015) 1, pp. 85-112
After evening out all the benefits and costs, the overall optimal level of democracy is about 3.2, on a scale of 1 to 7 … have a conditioned growth rate of 1.146 while countries with the optimal level of democracy/autocracy have a conditioned … growth rate of 2.665. In the case of a fully dictatorial country, moving one unit towards democracy can raise the GDP growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210493
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Natural Resource Wealth and Directed Technical Change
Segal, Paul - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012
This paper analyses the e¤ect of a resource discovery on an open economy with endogenous directed technical change. Technical progress depends on entrepreneurs who produce (or adopt) technology, and endogenously choose which sector to operate in. The static e¤ect of a resource discovery is de-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551672
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An investigation of the competitiveness hypothesis of the resource curse
Serino, Serino, L.A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008
In this paper I investigate the competitiveness explanation of the resource curse: to what extent slow growth in primary producer countries is related to the properties of this pattern of trade specialization. To address this hypothesis that has not been adequately explored in the literature, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149204
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An investigation of the competitiveness hypothesis of the resource curse.
Serino, Leandro Antonio - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005399334