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Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have been successfully used as an industrial policy tool in many countries. Efforts to create SEZs in Tanzania began in 2002, and were stepped up through the establishment of the Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) in 2006. A number of state-run zones are now in...
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Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have been successfully used as an industrial policy tool in many countries. Efforts to create SEZs in Tanzania began in 2002, and were stepped up through the establishment of the Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) in 2006. A number of state-run zones are now in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559919
approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …
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increases, trade growth and shifting trade patterns will have pervasive effects on income distribution in Vietnam. In this paper …
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literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth … a positive and statistically significant causal effect on growth over the long run, with confidence intervals conforming … to levels suggested by growth theory. Aid remains a key tool for enhancing the development prospects of poor countries. …
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Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear …
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Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The … causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address … impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …
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-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associated with … paper, we offer a re-examination of the literature on the aid-savings, aid-investment, and aid growth relationships, and a … coherent and positive picture of the aid-growth link emerges. Aid works, even in countries hampered by an unfavorable policy …
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This paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find … that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall …, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique’s annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and …
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Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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