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Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamics in Developing Countries
Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2017
Using a new tax database for 28 countries and a variety of econometric methods, this paper contributes to the debate on the effects of fiscal policy on economic activity in a number of ways. The analysis finds that tax cuts have a stimulative effect on economic growth in developing countries....
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Labor Market Regulations : What Do We Know About Their Impacts in Developing Countries?
Betcherman, Gordon - 2017
Labor market regulation is a high-profile, and often contentious, area of public policy. Although these regulations have been studied most extensively in developed countries, there is a growing body of literature on their effects in developing countries. This paper reviews that literature and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973371
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Constraints to Growth and Job Creation in Low-Income Commonwealth of Independent States Countries
Verme, Paolo - 2016
Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as jobless growth. The author addresses the causes of this phenomenon...
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Emerging and Developing Economies : Ten Years after the Global Recession
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841602
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2017
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...
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Exchange Rate Flexibility and the Effect of Remittances on Economic Growth
Lartey, Emmanuel K. K. - 2017
This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in recipient countries. The paper utilizes a comprehensive data set that comprises annual observations for 135 developing and transition countries, spanning 1970-2007. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966409
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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth
Loayza, Norman - 2017
legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries--in a typical developing economy, the … capital and labor in a modern economy. Second, it opens the possibility of labor migration from a rudimentary economy with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967818
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How Natural are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies
Nauges, Céline - 2016
economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … customer density in Moldova and Vietnam. The results of this study show that the cost structure of the water and wastewater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747840
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Health Insurance Impacts on Health and Nonmedical Consumption in a Developing Country
Pradhan, Menno Prasad - 2017
The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966155
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Unraveling a Secret : Vietnam's Outstanding Performance on the PISA Test
Parandekar, Suhas - 2017
This paper seeks to find an empirical explanation of Vietnam's outstanding performance on the Programme for … the unique exception of Vietnam, are typically clustered at the lower end of the range of the Programme for International … student Assessment scores. The paper compares Vietnam's performance with that of a set of seven developing countries from the …
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