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in Colombia to bring forth anexample of real world relevance …
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Using a panel of 101 low- and middle-income countries with data covering the period 1980-2012, this paper applies various econometric approaches that deal with endogeneity issues to assess the impact of food price shocks on socio-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been...
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This paper studies whether fiscal policy plays a stabilizing role in the context of import food price shocks. More precisely, the paper assesses whether fiscal policy dampens the adverse effect of import food price shocks on household consumption. Based on a panel of 70 low and middle-income...
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This paper describes some policy instruments set up by the IMF and the European Union in order to provide financial assistance to developing countries whose economies are affected by exogenous shocks from exports side. After briefly reviewing the IMF's CFF and the EU's STABEX, the paper presents...
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growth. Given existing evidence that LICs were primarily impacted by such a shock in the global financial crisis, our … higher stock of international reserves are more likely to dampen the effects of an ED shock on growth. -- Global financial …
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considers a developing economy that faces an upward-sloping supply function of debt. It analyzes how a particular foreign shock …, a world interest shock, influences such key macroeconomic variables as output, investment, the current account, and the … world interest shock lowers overall economic welfare …
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We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...
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We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during 1970‒2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average pro-cyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and recipient countries. However, they become...
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inflows helped low-income countries cope with the oil price shock. Preliminary data suggest that reductions in oil import …
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