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Revisiting the Growth-Inflation Nexus: A Wavelet Analysis
Bhaduri, Saumitra N - eSocialSciences - 2013
Motivated by the concern that the recent surge in inflation could retard growth, the paper revisits the nexus between … inflation and growth from the perspective of an emerging economy, India. Examining this relationship using a wavelet multi … and inflation for a short time scale, while it is not significant for a longer time scale. …
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Macroeconomics of structural adjustment and public finances in developing countries: A heterodox perspective
Nayyar, Deepak - In: International Journal of Development Issues 7 (2008) July, pp. 4-28
Purpose – This essay aims to analyze the process of structural adjustment in developing countries. Its focus is on macroeconomic stabilization in the short-term, but the analysis is situated in a wider context to consider how it relates to the implications of structural reform in the...
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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?
Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Multi-Country Evidenceon the Effects of Macroeconomic, Financial and Trade Policieson Efficiency of Resource Utilization in the Developing Countries
Odedokun, M. O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
development bank lendings, financial depth, inflation rate, real interest rate, and real exchange rate distortion. The export …
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The Rising Resilience of Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Abiad, Abdul; Bluedorn, John C; Guajardo, Jaime; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Economic performance in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) improved substantially over the past twenty years. The past decade was particularly good—for the first time EMDEs spent more time in expansion and had smaller downturns thanadvanced economies. In this paper we...
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The Puzzle of Persistently Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials; Financial Repression or Income Catch-Up?
Shabunina, Anna; Escolano, Julio; Woo, Jaejoon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The interest rate-growth differential (IRGD) shows a marked correlation with GDP per capita. It has been on average around 1 percentage point for large advanced economies during 1999-2008; but below -7 percentage points among non-advanced economies - exerting a powerful stabilizing influence on...
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Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
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On the First-Round Effects of International Food Price Shocks: the Role of the Asset Market Structure
Portillo, Rafael; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
developing countries. We define first-round effects as changes in headline inflation that, holding core inflation constant, help …
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Services trade and economic growth in India: an analysis in the post-reform period
Dash, Ranjan Kumar; Parida, Purna Chandra - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 3, pp. 326-345
Services sector in India contributes more than 60% of the overall gross domestic product (GDP) and more than 40% of total trade. This sector also absorbs a chunk of manpower, especially in export-oriented industries and reduces the employment burden on other non-services sectors. In this...
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