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The effects on growth of commodity price uncertainty and shocks

Dehn, Jan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The author estimates the effects on growth of commodity price shocks, and uncertainty within an established empirical growth model. Ex-post shocks, and ex-ante uncertainty have been treated in the empirical literature as if they were synonymous. But they are distinct concepts, and it is both...

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Issues in comparing poverty trends over time in Cote de'Ivoire

Jones, Christine; Ye, Xiao - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

Cote d'Ivoire conducted household surveys between 1985 and 1995, making it possible to trace changes in urban and rural poverty and changes in poverty among different socioeconomic groups. During the decade surveyed, the country experienced a major recession. Poverty increased substantially and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128895

Distortions to agriculture and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Bruckner, Markus - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...

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Inequality, the price of nontradables, and the real exchange rate : theory and cross-country evidence

Min, Hong-Ghi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … negative relationship between inequality and real exchange rates does not imply that policies aimed at dramatic redistribution …

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Relative price changes and the growth of the public sector

Shahbaz Khan, M. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990

Policy recommendations to reduce the growth of public spending are haunted by the inevitability of two factors. First Wagner's law, the hypothesis that with economic development an increasing share of GDP is devoted to public spending, and secondly, Baumol's effect, that as economies develop,...

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Who paid the bill? Adjustment and poverty in Brazil, 1980-95

Fox, M. Louise; Morley, Samuel A. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

The difficulties most Latin American countries have experienced in returning to sustained growth after the world recession and debt crisis of 1982 have surprised and frustrated many observers. Concern is increasingly expressed about the social costs of this period of recession and adjustment,...

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Methods for measuring the effect of adjustment policies on income distribution

Maasland, Anne - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990

The effect of adjustment policies on different groups in the population is an important and complex issue. The distributional implications can have a large influence on the sustainability of programs. In particular, there is a need to identify how different groups in society are affected by an...

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Social costs of the transition to capitalism : Poland, 1990-91

Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993

The Polish stabilization program implemented in 1990 as part of the transition to capitalism entailed unexpectedly high social costs. The often unstated assumptions had been that since central planning was intrinsically inefficient, stabilization in Poland might be less costly in terms of lost...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079741

Differentiating cyclical and long-term income elasticities of import demand

Clavijo, Fernando; Faini, Riccardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1989

Determining how imports react to cyclical and secular (long term) factors has been a recurrent theme in the empirical trade literature. The evidence suggests that cyclical income elasticities of import demand are generally higher than long term elasticities - particularly for basic materials and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079910

Cross-country studies of growth and policy : methodological, conceptual, and statistical problems

Levine, Ross; Renelt, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

This paper reviews the conceptual, methodological, and statistical problems associated with drawing inferences from cross-country regressions. The authors elaborate on the particular problems associated with empirical attempts to link particular policies with long-run growth. They hope to...

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