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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?
Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...
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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...
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Economics and politics of food standards, trade, and development
Swinnen, Johan F. M. - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 47 (2016), pp. 7-19
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Economic Integration, Sectoral Diversification, and Exchange Rate Policy in a Developing Economy
Srour, Gabriel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
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The WTO and the Poorest Countries; The Stark Reality
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a …
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The political Economy of WTO with special reference to NAMA Negotiations
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in … industrializers and the failure of recent across-the-board and universal trade liberalization, he proposes the necessary changes in …
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Political economy of happiness
Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 28/30, pp. 4205-4211
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Neo-protectionism and the European lobbies
Belloc, Marianna - 2014
upsurge of non-tariff trade measures and the remarkable rise in the role of European business lobbies. While these two facts … have been widely recognized by the international trade and the political economy literature, empirical investigation into … of national and international organizations in the European Commission consultations on trade issues and by merging it …
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Social networks in policy making
Battaglini, Marco; Patacchini, Eleonora - In: Annual review of economics 11 (2019), pp. 473-494
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An allegory of the political influence of the top 1%
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2013
private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …
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