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Ghana; Will it Be Gifted or Will it Be Cursed?

Aydin, Burcu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Will Ghanaâ€™s oil production from 2011 accelerate progress toward middle-income status, or will it retard gains in living standards through a possible "resource curse"? This paper examines the likelihood of "resource curse" effects, drawing on a dataset of 150 low and middle income...

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Does Better Nutrition Cause Economic Growth? The efficiency cost of hunger revisited

Wang, Xiaojun; Taniguchi, Kiyoshi - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002

This paper considers the impact of the nutritional status on the growth rate of real GDP per capita. In particular, a panel of 114 countries’ Dietary Energy Supply (DES) per capita from 1961 to 1999 is combined with the latest release of real GDP per capita data from the World Bank (World...

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Benchmark Priors Revisited:on Adaptive Shrinkage and the Supermodel Effect in Bayesian Model Averaging

Feldkircher, Martin; Zeugner, Stefan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Default prior choices fixing Zellner's g are predominant in the Bayesian Model Averaging literature, but tend to concentrate posterior mass on a tiny set of models. The paper demonstrates this supermodel effect and proposes to address it by a hyper-g prior, whose data-dependent shrinkage adapts...

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Cyclical Patterns in Government Health Expenditures Between 1995 and 2010

Velenyi, Edit V.; Smitz, Marc F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...

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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project

Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …

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Does FDI improve economic development in North African countries?

Soumaré, Issouf - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 49/51, pp. 5510-5533

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Pension systems and their meaning for welfare : a comparison of PAYG and FF pension systems

Böhm, Wencke - 2012

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Productivity measurement : racing to keep up

Sichel, Daniel E. - In: Annual review of economics 11 (2019), pp. 591-614

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Welfare effects of R&D support policies

Takalo, Tuomas; Tanayama, Tanja; Toivanen, Otto - 2022

, and application and allocation of R&D subsidies, estimate it using Finnish R&D project level data and conduct a welfare … subsidies do not reach first best R&D but increase R&D 29-47% compared to laissez-faire. Welfare effects are small: Tax credits … increase welfare 1%; subsidies reduce welfare once application costs are taken into accout. In terms of fiscal cost, tax …

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The dynamics of health care and growth : a model with physician in dual practice

Alpaslan, Baris; Lim, King Yoong; Song, Yan - 2019

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