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Von Südafrika ging mit der politischen Wende am Kap die Hoffnung aus, das Land könnte für den gesamten Subkontinent zu einem Vorbild demokratischer Entwicklung, politischer Stabilität und wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs werden. Tatsächlich hat die Kaprepublik diesen Erwartungen bis heute...
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Am 21. März 2000 war es zehn Jahre her, dass Namibia nach mehr als 100 Jahren Fremdbestimmung und Minderheitenherrschaft offiziell und nach demokratischen Wahlen in die Unabhängigkeit entlassen wurde. Die neue Swapo-Regierung stand damals vor der Mammutaufgabe, eine durch lange Apartheidsjahre...
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Von Südafrika ging mit der politischen Wende am Kap die Hoffnung aus, das Land könnte für den gesamten Subkontinent zu einem Vorbild demokratischer Entwicklung, politischer Stabilität und wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs werden. Tatsächlich hat die Kaprepublik diesen Erwartungen bis heute...
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Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
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This paper uses the cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model to assess the dynamic relationship between foreign aid inflows, public expenditure, revenue and domestic borrowing in Ethiopia. It departs from the existing literature by using a unique quarterly fiscal dataset (1993-2008) and...
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The current global financial meltdown draws, once again, attention to the existence of business cycle fluctuations. Experts are of the view that the ongoing crisis is far deeper than the great depression of the 1930s. It should be recalled that the Keynes and Keynesianism was a response to that...
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This paper uses the cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model to assess the dynamic relationship between foreign aid inflows, public expenditure, revenue and domestic borrowing in Ethiopia. It departs from the existing literature by using a unique quarterly fiscal dataset (1993-2008) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903114
This study assesses the speed of real convergence in ECOWAS using the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) theory to determine the readiness of member countries for a monetary union. The study leveraged on Bayoumi and Eichengreen (1996) and computed OCA indices utilizing both variables suggested by the...
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Countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are heterogeneous, characterized by marked differences in production and export structures, divergent levels of inflation rates and fiscal positions. These features suggest that there is a greater tendency for the transmission...
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This paper focuses on business cycle synchronisation between Regional Economic Communities in Africa during the period 1980Q1-2016Q4. We consider a time series clustering analysis to evaluate whether the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have similar patterns in business cycle comovements....
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