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When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? Experiences in Malaysia and Pakistan
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
This paper focuses on two central issues related to the contrasting experiences of Malaysia and Pakistan regarding poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries, including the initial conditions, institutional changes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248163
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Tanzania's Growth Process and Success in Reducing Poverty
Treichel, Volker - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264079
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Distributional dynamics in Post Keynesian growth models
Dutt, Amitava Krishna - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 34 (2012) 3, pp. 431-452
This paper uses a set of simple Post Keynesian models of growth and distribution to provide a systematic analysis of how growth affects income distribution through a number of alternative channels, thereby making possible a more complete analysis of the interaction between growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612916
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Regional Impact of Cote D'Ivoire'S Sociopolitical Crisis; An Assessment
Engmann, Dorothy; Dore, Ousmane; Anne, Benoít - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper evaluates the impact of the sociopolitical crisis in Côte d'Ivoire on the economies of its neighbors. Using a nonsubjective weighted index of regional instability in cross-country time-series regressions, it shows that the increase in regional instability caused by domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826519
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New Evidenceon Fiscal Adjustment and Growth in Transition Economies
Gupta, Sanjeev; Simone, Alejandro; Segura-Ubiergo, Alex - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper analyzes the relationship between fiscal adjustment and real GDP growth in a panel of 26 transition economies during 1992-2001. Unlike most previous studies using cross-country regressions, the paper finds a positive and statistically significant relationship between fiscal adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605123
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When and Why Worry About Real Exchange Rate Appreciation? The Missing Link Between Dutch Disease and Growth
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
We review the literature on Dutch disease, and document that shocks that trigger foreign exchange inflows (such as natural resource booms, surges in foreign aid, remittances, or capital inflows) appreciate the real exchange rate, generate factor reallocation, and reduce manufacturing output and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777021
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Output and Unemployment Dynamics During the Great Recession; A Panel Unobserved Components Analysis
Vitek, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper analyzes the sources of output and unemployment dynamics in the world economy during the Great Recession. This analysis is based on a panel unobserved components model of the world economy, disaggregated into its fifteen largest national economies. We find that excess supply pressure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646428
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The Economics of Political Transitions; Implications for the Arab Spring
Khandelwal, Padamja; Roitman, Agustin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Over the past two years, ongoing political transitions in many Arab countries have led to social unrest and an economic downturn. This paper examines comparable historical episodes of political instability to derive implications for the near- and medium-term economic outlook in the Arab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242232
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Dynamic Gains From Trade; Evidence From South Africa
Subramanian, Arvind; Jonsson, Gunnar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264046
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Offshoring and productivity revisited: A Time-Series Analysis
Agnese, Pablo - Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences - 2013
The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple … framework for estimating the contribution of these strategies to the growth rate of labor productivity from a time … should be interpreted with caution yet clearly suggest that offshoring can improve labor productivity in the semiconductors …
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