In spite of the rapidly growing research on fiscal multipliers over the recent years, little evidence has been so far accumulated in developing and emerging economies. This paper investigates the nature and the size of fiscal multipliers in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). Unlike...

We question whether the use of social networks to exit unemployment matters in Cameroon. We develop an empirical model which allows us to address this issue in a convenient way. We propose a methodology based on the well known Heckman (1976) two-step procedure to account for both simultaneity...

Although a growing body of literature emphasizes that the poor may benefit from better access to financial services through more growth and employment opportunities, there is a continuing debate about the mechanism and extent to which such access would reduce inequalities. Considering that labor...