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Is the glass half empty or half full? : issues in managing water challenges and policy instruments

Kochhar, Kalpana; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Sun, Yan; … - 2015

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Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? : Issues in Managing Water Challenges and Policy Instruments

Kochhar, Kalpana - 2015

This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and … discusses economic policy instruments. Water subsidies provided through public utilities are estimated at about $456 billion or … 0.6 percent of global GDP in 2012. The paper suggests that getting economic incentives right, notably by reforming water …

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Monetary policy issues in sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Andrew; O'Connell, Stephen A.; Pattillo, Catherine A. - 2015

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Export orientation and productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

Mengistae, Taye; Pattillo, Catherine A. - 2002 - Rev

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Terms of trade shocks in Africa : are they short-lived or long-lived?

Cashin, Paul A.; Pattillo, Catherine A. - 2000

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Terms of trade shocks in Africa : are they short-lived or long-lived

Cashin, Paul A.; McDermott, C. John; Pattillo, Catherine A. - In: Journal of development economics 73 (2004) 2, pp. 727-744

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Export orientation and productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mengistae, Taye; Pattillo, Catherine A. - In: IMF staff papers 51 (2004) 2, pp. 327-353

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Sustaining growth accelaerations and pro-poor growth in Africa

Pattillo, Catherine A.; Gupta, Sanjeev; Carey, Kevin - 2005

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Export Orientation and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pattillo, Catherine A. - 2002

Analysis of firm-level panel data from three sub-Saharan African economies shows that exporting manufacturers have a total factor productivity premium of 11-28 percent. The data do not allow testing of whether these premiums are caused by selection of more efficient producers into exporting or...

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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2007

This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA swamps remittances, this paper finds that...

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