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Optimal investment allocation and exchange rate management in oil exporting countries : a normative analysis of the Dutch disease

Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 1981

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Democracy, credibility, and clientelism

Keefer, Philip - 2005

. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways. First, they can build reputations. This requires that they fulfill … commitments to their clients. Endogenizing credibility in this way, the authors find that targeted transfers and corruption are …-electoral promises. They also argue that in the absence of political credibility, political reliance on patrons enhances welfare in the …

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Financial dollarization and central bank credibility

Cowan, Kevin - 2003

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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...

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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....

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Child labor, income shocks, and access to credit

Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2003

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Oil Rules : Kazakhstan's Policy Options in a Downturn

World Bank - 2014

This report assesses the role of fiscal rules for countercyclical economic management in Kazakhstan and simulates the behavior of different types of fiscal rules. The work represents technical assistance to the ministry of economy and budget planning and has been financed by the joint economic...

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Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries : a critical review and new evidence

Delavande, Adeline - 2009

"The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health, education, finance, migration,...

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Comparing the impact of food and energy price shocks on consumers : a social accounting matrix analysis for Ghana

Parra, Juan Carlos - 2008

"Many countries have been affected by food and oil price shocks. Rising energy costs have manifested themselves through higher prices of gas at the pump and through price increases for many other goods such as kerosene and transport. But in some countries there has also been some degree of...

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Black hole or black gold? : the impact of oil and gas prices on Indonesia's public finance

Agustina, Rosa (contributor) - 2008

"Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the impact of higher international oil prices on the Indonesian government's fiscal position in 2008 and beyond. It analyzes the interactions between government revenues and...

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