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Lessons for Canada from International Productivity Experience
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2006
The objective of this report is to develop a more comprehensive understanding, from a policy perspective, of key drivers of labour productivity in selected OECD countries and their impact on enhanced productivity performance. The report is divided into three major parts. The first part will...
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A Framework for Exchange Rate Policy in Korea
Dooley, Michael; Dornbusch, Rudi; Park, Yung Chul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2002
The monetary policy and exchange rate regime that served Korea well for many years ended in crisis in 1997. The regime that collapsed was characterized by a tightly managed nominal exchange rate and domestic financial markets that were controlled by the government and largely closed to...
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A Simultaneous Equation Model of Economic Growth, FDI and Government Policy in China
Ford, J L; Sen, S; Wei, Hongxu - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2010
Empirical investigations aimed at determining what relationship, if any, exists between FDI and economic growth has drawn ambiguous results. This is also the case for China, where all empirical studies have used the VAR methodology. In this study we outline a dynamic simultaneous equations...
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The Impact of the Foreign Direct Investments on the Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Central and Eastern European Countries
Rãdulescu, Magdalena - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 1634-1639
are the most efficient and safe way to integrate into the world economy. Further, we shall examine some structural changes …
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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Acceleration, Stagnation and Crisis: the Role of Policies and Institutions
Jerzmanowski, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we study long run economic growth as a sequence of accelerations, slowdowns and crises, and estimate the role of institutions and macroeconomic policies in determining this sequence. We analyze the joint effect of policies and institutions on the frequency of the four growth...
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Diversification in Africa in a macroeconomic perspective
Galy, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
This paper contrasts the poor performance of African economies over the past 30 years with the remarkable development of East Asian newly industrialized countries. It provides evidence that the lack of diversification, stemming from the adoption of inward-looking strategies, interventionist...
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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economic Growth and Countries’ Export Potential
Pelinescu, Elena; Radulescu, Magdalena - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2009) 4, pp. 153-169
growth rates, the IMF and the World Bank started to recommend to all countries (recommendation that they make currently) to … way to integrate into the world economy. Concluding, only direct foreign investments would allow the re-specialization of … the economy to surpass the situation of maintaining on the world markets only with food products and raw materials. Indeed …
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Accountability and MDGs: Methodology for measuring government performance for global goals
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Greenstein, Joshua - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2011
MDGs are global goals and are powerful tools of international policy because they create a framework of accountability by going beyond stating general objectives and set quantitative, time bound targets against which performance can be measured. This paper challenges the methodology...
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