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Making growth more inclusive in Thailand

Fleischer, Lara; Bogiatzis, Adam; Asada, Hidekatsu; … - 2018

The People pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development focuses on quality of life in all its dimensions, and emphasises the international community’s commitment to ensuring all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity, equality and good health. Thailand’s path from a...

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Sharing the benefits of China's growth by providing opportunities to all

Westmore, Ben - 2017

Living standards in China have greatly improved over the past few decades. Both sustained economic growth and an expansion of the social security system have contributed to a sharp reduction in the number of people in poverty. However, urban-rural inequalities remain large and some of the...

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Natural disaster shocks and macroeconomic growth in Asia : evidence for typhoons and droughts

Alano, Emmanuel; Lee, Minsoo - 2016

Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely affect growth prospects globally. Current robust estimates of the effects of typhoons and droughts point to both short- and long-term declines in national incomes compared to...

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Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation in India

Paul, Amalanathan - 2019

This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth and poverty alleviation in India using annual data over the period 1975/76 to 2016/17. We employ the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach advocated by Pesaran et al (2001), which is more appropriate for...

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The Macroeconomic Challenges of Scaling Up Aid to Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2006

This paper surveys the economic literature on the scaling-up of aid to Africa. It provides a checklist of issues that need to be considered when preparing a long term macroeconomic projection for a country involving the assumption of a significant increase in aid. Such scaling-up scenarios are...

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The impact of COVID-19 and its policy responses on local economy and health conditions

Gungoraydinoglu, Ali; Öztekin, Ilke; Öztekin, Özde - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-27

US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy responses on local economic and health conditions, with the goal to shed light on marginal health benefits and economic costs associated with social distancing. We find that...

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Trade for Growth and Poverty Reduction : How Aid for Trade Can Help

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2012

Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However, developing countries – in particular the least developed – face difficulties in making trade happen and turning trade into economic growth. The Aid for Trade Initiative – launched...

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Understanding the Resource Impact Using Matching

Aliyev, Ilkin - 2011

We investigate the resource impact on economic growth using matching. Using a nonparametric minimum-distance matching … growth rates as it has been done in the literature. Assuming correlation between observables and unobservables, the matching … based on observables may control for unobservables as well. If this assumption is satisfied, matching allows us to control …

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Social transfers and growth : the missing evidence from luminosity data

Villa, Juan M. - 2014

The effects of social transfers on growth are still unclear. The limitations of aggregated data at sub-national levels have confined the analysis to the use of simulation models and household surveys. As an alternative, this paper contributes to the empirical literature by assessing the effects...

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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare

Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15

This paper aims to assess tax policy reforms that can sustain universal basic income programs and foster long-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government and economics' debate, we developed a Dynamic Stochastic...

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