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Diasporas and Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence and Policy

Bahar, Dany - 2020

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital"

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The Risks of Nation-Building Through Military Aid and Intervention

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022

This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...

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Great Volatility and Great Moderation

Grazzini, Jakob - 2019

We investigate the sources of the great changes in GDP volatility observed from 1966 to 2000. We develop a general …-sectoral linkages and households' behavior to aggregate volatility. Our results show that changes in sectoral volatility played an … important role in shaping volatility at the aggregate level. Moreover, asymmetries in the economic structure sometimes had an …

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Tax Systems and Development

Mardan, Mohammed - 2020

This paper analyzes the optimal tax system consisting of the tax rate and the capacity of the tax administration. I challenge the conventional wisdom that tax rates and tax administrations' capacity are complements showing that their relationship depends on a country's level of development....

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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...

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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...

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Devotion and Development : Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France

Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2020

This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development and through which mechanism. I examine Catholicism in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914). In this period, technology became skill-intensive, leading to the introduction of...

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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

Bluhm, Richard - 2019

The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...

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