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The net impact of development interventions can depend on the availability of close substitutes to the intervention. We analyze a randomized trial of an innovative anti-poverty program in South India which provides “ultra-poor” households with inputs to create a new, sustainable livelihood....
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We show that the effects of inflation on growth change substantially as the inflation rate rises. Moreover the nonlinearities are quite different for industrial economies than for developing countries. We find that the threshold at which inflation first begins to seriously negatively affect...
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We conduct a meta-analysis of the effect-size estimates from 9 empirical studies and a narrative synthesis of the qualitative evidence from 53 qualitative studies on the relationship between innovation and employment in low-income countries (LICs). The meta-analysis reveals a positive but small...
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We estimate a gravity model to address the question of whether Africa`s bilateral trade with industrial countries is quot;unusualquot; compared with other developing country regions. Our main finding is that the unusually low level of African trade is explained by economic size, geographical...
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The present empirical study investigates the dynamic link between the agricultural and industrial output of Pakistan economy using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. Empirical results suggest that agricultural output effect on the industrial output in the long run...
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How financial market stability in oil exporting developing countries might be impacted by oil price fluctuations in the long term? The purpose of this paper is to answer this question. The present study is based on a sample including 35 net oil-exporting developing countries observed between...
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This study investigates inflation persistence in annual CPI inflation collected between 1994 and 2014 for 46 African countries. We group these countries into panels according to whether they are inflation targeters or not and conduct estimations for pre and post inflation targeting periods....
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This working paper presents the results of the 2016 OECD-DAC Survey on amounts mobilised from the private sector in 2012-2015 by official development finance interventions, in particular in the form of guarantees, syndicated loans, shares in collective investment vehicles, direct investment in...
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This paper examines official country selection as well as resource allocation of German aid after the end of the Cold War and embeds the analysis into the broader debate about German foreign policy. Based on new data, we take into account several peculiarities of the German aid system. We find...
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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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