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The aftermath of debt surges
Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Reinhart, Carmen M.; … - 2021
options that have, in the past, helped lower debt burdens. Specifically, it examines orthodox options (enhancing growth …
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Import substitution industrialisation and economic growth : evidence from the group of BRICS countries
Adewale, Aregbeshola R. - In: Future Business Journal 3 (2017) 2, pp. 138-158
Governments in various countries, irrespective of the country׳s level of economic growth, seek to initiate …
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The impact of government spending on GDP in a remitting country
Al-Abri, Almukhtar S.; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2018
The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to...
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...
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Essays on the effects of growth, public expenditures and infrastructure investments in developing countries
Almánzar, Miguel - 2017
The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government … findings in a literature that has few existing examples that demonstrate similar rigorous evidence on the effects of growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659546
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Borrowing for growth : big pushes and debt sustainability in low-income countries
Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Buffie, Edward F.; Portillo, Rafael; … - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 33 (2019) 3, pp. 661-689
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Debt, investment, and growth in developing countries with segmented labor markets
Buffie, Edward F.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Adam, Christopher S. - 2020
We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different …
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Fiscal Policy, Public Capital and Economic Growth
Altar, Moisa - 2008
The effect of public investment on economic growth is a crucial public policy issue. Empirical research into this … influences the performances of economic growth. We analyze the impact of public investment on the dynamics of private capital …
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Macroeconomic Policies, Instability and Growth in the World
Elbadawi, Ibrahim - 2017
High instability and low growth characterize the macroeconomic performance of most developing countries. Inadequate … macroeconomic-financial policies, instability, and growth across developing and industrial nations. While successful transitions to … low instability and high growth are not frequent, they have been observed in a dozen of countries. Such win …
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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries
Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...
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