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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320352
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369250
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397310
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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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Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2010
In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in their GDP per capita levels at the beginning of the 1980s but otherwise significantly different in their economic and social structures. On the one hand we look at Argentina,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331394
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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?
Székely, Miguel; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2000
East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327161
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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
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