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Promoting growth in Sri Lanka : lessons from East Asia

Ahmed, Sadiq; Ranjan, Priya - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995

Sri Lanka's weak economic performance, although compounded by the civil war and budgetary imbalance, largely reflects the following: 1) a stop-and-go pattern of policy reform, because of political constraints - even though the results of reform were generally positive; 2) weak economic...

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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches

Essama-Nssah, B. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....

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Small states, small problems?

Easterly, William; Kraay, Aart - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Small states have attracted a good deal of research. The authors test whether micro-states are any different from other states in income, growth, and volatility. They find that, controlling for location, smaller states are actually richer than other states in per capita GDP. This income...

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Is the developing world catching up ? global convergence and national rising dispersion

Bussolo, Maurizio; Hoyos, Rafael E. De; Medvedev, Denis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income inequality by 2030. This potential reduction can be fully accounted for by … suggest that the mid-1990s could be seen as a turning point after which global inequality began showing a negative tendency. …

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Growth trends in the developing world : country forecasts and determinants

Ianchovichina, Elena; Kacker, Pooja - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

The authors present real per capita GDP growth forecasts for all developing countries for the period 2005-14. For 55 of these countries, representing major world regions and accounting for close to 80 percent of the developing world's GDP, they forecast the growth effects of the main forces...

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Macroeconomic adjustment and the poor : analytical issues and cross-country evidence

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

illiteracy, income inequality, and macroeconomic volatility tend to increase poverty. In addition, the impact of growth on …

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Finance and macroeconomic volatility

Denizer, Cevdet; Iyigun, Murat F.; Owen, Ann L. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

Countries with more developed financial sectors, experience fewer fluctuations in real per capita output, consumption … the financial system is important in explaining consumption, and investment volatility. The proportion of credit provided … to the private sector, best explains volatility of consumption, and output. The authors generate their main results using …

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Africa's growth tragedy : a retrospective, 1960-89

Easterly, William; Levine, Ross - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995

Africa's economic history since 1960 fits the classical definition of tragedy: potential unfulfilled with disastrous consequences. The authors use one mehthodology - cross-country regressions - to account for sub-Saharan Africa's growth performance over the past 30 years and to suggest policies...

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Externalities in rural development - evidence for China

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

The author tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm … the consumption growth process. Evidence is found of geographic externalities, stemming from spillover effects of the …

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Methodological problems in cross-country analyses of economic growth

Azam, Jean-Paul; Guillaumont, Sylviane - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1988

Many cross country studies have been conducted over the last twenty years to explain how various factors affect economic growth rates in the developing countries. The data in these studies - which underlie international economic comparisons and serve as the basis for economic policy...

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