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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment -- proxied by regional …

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From 'Hindu Growth' to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition

Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …

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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...

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Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions

Lefèvre, Mélanie; Tharakan, Joe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...

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Structural Adjustment, Efficiency, and Economic Growth

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper is intended to make four main points that are relevant for previously planned economies in transition to a market economy. First, national output can be increased by reducing or eliminating relative price distortions through price reform and free trade and by thus enhancing...

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Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade

Cuñat, Alejandro; Maffezzoli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

factors in the world makes worldwide factor price equalization impossible, and leads countries to group in two diversification …

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Natural Resources and Economic Growth: From Dependence to Diversification

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper reviews the relationship between natural resource dependence and economic growth, and stresses how natural capital intensity tends to crowd out foreign capital, social capital, human capital, physical capital, and financial capital, thereby impeding economic growth across countries....

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Who is Afraid of Political Instability?

Campos, Nauro F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

An unstable macroeconomic environment is often regarded as detrimental to economic growth. Among the sources contributing to such instability, the literature has assigned most of the blame to political issues. This paper empirically tests for a causal and negative long-term relationship between...

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Natural Resources and Economic Growth: The Role of Investment

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Empirical evidence seems to indicate that economic growth since 1965 has varied inversely with natural resource abundance across countries. This Paper proposes a linkage between abundant natural resources and economic growth, through saving and investment. When the share of output that accrues...

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Privatization, Efficiency and Economic Growth

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Privatization is shown to increase national economic output in a two-sector full-employment general-equilibrium model by enhancing efficiency as if a relative price distortion were being removed through price reform, trade liberalization, or stabilization. The static output gain from...

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