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The authors study the economic performance of ten Caribbean islands in two groups: six small islands from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and four larger islands: Barbados, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. They compute external shocks together with each...
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Lederman and Maloney examine the empirical relationships between trade structure and economic growth, particularly the influence of natural resource abundance, export concentration, and intra-industry trade. They test the robustness of these relationships across proxies, control variables, and...
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The author estimates the effects on growth of commodity price shocks, and uncertainty within an established empirical growth model. Ex-post shocks, and ex-ante uncertainty have been treated in the empirical literature as if they were synonymous. But they are distinct concepts, and it is both...
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The authors examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing in a large sample of countries spanning many levels of development over the period 1967-1992. There is a widely held but rarely tested view that the rate of growth in agricultural...
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inequality. A higher share of income for the middle class and lower ethnic polarization, are empirically associated with higher …
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Recent empirical studies question conventional wisdom about the importance of education to growth. These results partly reflect how international differences in the quality of education systems--defined by the systems'ability to produce one marginal unit of productive human capital--are not...
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for a recovery of private consumption and investment in the debt stricken developing countries, as well as in Eastern …
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designed to decrease inequality result in greater government consumption and the cost of increased government consumptions …Inequality is often regarded as a necessary evil that has to be tolerated to allow growth, says the author. The view … that inequality is necessary for the accumulation of wealth, and contains the seeds of eventual increases in everyone …
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"into the model. In the long run, countries with different degrees of capitalist spirit will have different consumption, capital …
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causality to go from exogenous population growth to endogenous growth. To forgo consumption, households hold human and physical …
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