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This paper evaluates the welfare implications of privatization in emerging market economies, in countries where … policies are determined by the median voter. We show that privatization may lead to large efficiency gains by changing the menu … of taxes. We illustrate this point with two examples. First, we consider privatization of import competing public …
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This paper evaluates the welfare implications of privatization in emerging market economies, in countries where … policies are determined by the median voter. We show that privatization may lead to large efficiency gains by changing the menu … of taxes. We illustrate this point with two examples. First, we consider privatization of import competing public …
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This paper identifies factors associated with takeoff - a sustained period of high growth following a period of stagnation. We examine a panel of 241 stagnation episodes" from 146 countries, 54 % of these episodes are followed by takeoffs. Countries that experience takeoffs average 2.3% annual...
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This paper studies the experience of Latin-America [LATAM] with financial liberalization in the 1990s. The rush towards financial liberalizations in the early 1990s was associated with expectations that external financing would alleviate the scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing...
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