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The political economy dimensions of macroeconomic management of aid in Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Asem, Freda; Domfe, George - 2013
This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the political economy in a way that engendered growth. Ghana...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333678
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One size does not fit all: the need for flexibility in policy responses to slow growth
Wang, Songqi - In: China Finance and Economic Review 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-7
The root cause behind the Chinese economy's slowing down in 2012 lies in a "one-size-fits-all" approach to macroeconomic management. This approach must be abandoned if domestic demand is to be effectively boosted. A superior approach would involve the introduction of policies tailored to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658415
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Aid absorption and spending in Africa: A panel cointegration approach
Martins, Pedro M. G. - 2010
This paper focuses on the macroeconomic management of large inflows of foreign aid. It investigates the extent to which African countries have coordinated fiscal and macroeconomic responses to aid surges. In practice, we construct a panel dataset to investigate the level of aid 'absorption' and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288511
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Understanding commodity markets to effectively address price increases and volatility in a post-COVID-19 world
Newman, Susan; Van Huellen, Sophie - 2022
Dependence on agro-commodity exports amongst low-income economies mean that they are uniquely vulnerable to balance of payment shocks. They are often also dependent on the imports of food crops and energy, resulting in a double burden in the post-COVID-19 period. In this paper, we review new and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369432
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291889
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Short and long run decompositions of OECD wage in[e]quality changes
Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2002
This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292022
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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application
Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008
It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292065
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Back to the future: Decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292826
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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality: An empirical comparison
Madden, David - 2008
When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based … compares inequality rankings across a number of different approaches and finds considerable sensitivity to the choice between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292833
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour: A Shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292845