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The poverty macroeconomic policy nexus: Some short-run analytics
Mavrotas, George; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2005
The present paper utilises a short-run theoretical macroeconomic model of a small open economy to look at the impact of macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain sectors may cause greater poverty reduction. The...
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Is time ripe for a currency union in emerging East Asia? The role of monetary stabilisation
Sánchez, Marcelo - 2005
This paper assesses the prospects for monetary integration between Emerging East Asian (EEA) economies. Our empirical analysis is based on a simple analytical framework for currency unions of small open economies, with a focus on the conduct of monetary policy in the presence of different types...
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2011
This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...
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Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience
Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 2001
This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...
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Productivity, structural change, and Latin American development
Machicado, Carlos; Rioja, Felix; Saravia, Antonio - 2012
We calibrate a simple neoclassical model of structural transformation to a set of Latin American countries and show that slow growth in agricultural productivity can substantially delay the development process and result in signi cant di erences in per capita incomes. Some of our results...
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The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained
García Solanes, José; Torrejón-Flores, Fernando - 2008
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. Applying panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for cross-sectional dependence problems in the data,...
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The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained
García Solanes, José; Torrejón-Flores, Fernando - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-2, pp. 1-24
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effects in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. The USA is taken as a benchmark. Applying recent panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for...
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Economic Integration in East Asia and Europe: A Comparison
Pascha, Werner - 2004
Unterschiedliche Startbedingungen und Entscheidungsmechanismen regionaler Integration in Europa und Ostasien werden … und mit der Gefahr einer Überexpansion. Ostasien besitzt noch liquidere Mechanismen. Damit konnte es sein ökonomisches … Ebene reagiert Ostasien auf verschiedene Weise, erhöht aber die Intransparenz. Beide Regionen haben bisher ihre potenziellen …
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Lessons of the European crisis for regional monetary and financial integration in East Asia
Volz, Ulrich - 2012
The debt crisis in several member states of the euro area has raised doubts on the viability of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the future of the euro. While the launch of the euro in 1999 stirred a lot of interest in regional monetary integration and even monetary unification in...
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Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Asia and Pacific Region: Perspective from East Asia
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - 2010
The Asia and Pacific region and Latin American and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparities in economics, politics, culture, and history. Most recently, a number of forums explored the possibility of closing such gaps and linking the...
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