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Afghanistan - State Building, Sustaining Growth, and Reducing Poverty : A Country Economic Report
World Bank - 2013
This is the first Economic Report on Afghanistan by the World Bank in a quarter-century. It is intended to contribute … implementation. State-building, discussed in Chapter 4, lies at the core of Afghanistan's reconstruction as well as progress on … engine of growth and poverty reduction in Afghanistan. Agriculture, covered in Chapter 6, comprises half of the economy and …
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Comparing Central Europe and the Baltic macroeconomies : a Bayesian approach
Beqiraj, Elton; Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni; Di Pietro, Marco; … - 2018
Applying the Bayesian approach, a small open economy DSGE model was estimated using a sample of quarterly data for a macro-region formed by six Central Europe and Baltic economies: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia. Estimates have been employed to investigate the...
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China's economic revolution
Eckstein, Alexander - 1977 - 1. publ.
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Economic cycles and development aid: what is the evidence from the past?
Hallet, Martin - 2009
This Economic Brief looks at past evidence as to what extent donors' economic cycles have an effect on their aid budgets. It generally finds only a weak correlation of economic growth and aid of OECD donors between 1971 and 2008, and aid was reduced in only about half of all episodes of deep or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291906
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Crisis and reform : Keynote addresses at DG ECFIN's annual research conference
Buti, Marco - 2010
The present global financial crisis is the deepest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It has impacted severely on the European economy. It has forced policy-makers in the EU and elsewhere to respond with exceptional measures to counter the depressive effects of the crisis. The crisis has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291907
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Exit strategy: is 1937/38 relevant?
Noord, Paul Joseph van den - 2010
The 1937/38 recession in the United States is often quoted as a warning against premature exits from monetary and fiscal stimulus. The presumption is that the 1937/38 recession was indeed due to such a premature exit. This Economic Brief presents evidence that goes against this view. The 1937/38...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291908
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Distance says it all? What the global crisis tells us about the resilience of Mexico and Brazil
Kooi, Willem - 2010
The economies of Mexico and Brazil have many important commonalities, but Brazil's economy has, so far, shown more resilience to global economic crisis, which had its epicentre in Mexico's Northern neighbour. In this Economic Brief the performances of the Brazilian and Mexican economies are...
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Keynote speeches at the Brussels Economic Forum 2010 : Strategies for a post-crisis world: enhancing European growth Keynote speeches at the Brussels Economic Forum 2010
Buti, Marco - 2010
The 11th Brussels Economic Forum, held on 25-26 May 2010, took place against a background of the Greek debt crisis and keen debate on the future of Europe's economic governance. In that sense it took place at the ideal moment. Participants debated the causes and consequences of the crisis, and...
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The tale of the Baltics: experiences, challenges ahead and main lessons
Deroose, Servaas; Flores Gual, Elena; Giudice, Gabriele; … - 2010
This brief reviews the main economic developments since transition in the three Baltic economies and highlights challenges for the future. Although the three economies went, in an almost synchronous fashion, through similar stages of catching up and financial convergence-driven booms and busts,...
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