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Private Capital, Public Goods : Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania

Degnet, Mohammed B. - 2017

by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … regression model with observations of the size and quality of infrastructure and social services in the villages and with … infrastructure and social services in adjacent villages. The results suggest that large-scale private forest plantations can …

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Infrastructure and Growth : Empirical Evidence

Égert, Balázs - 2009

Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … the links between infrastructure and growth and the role of public policies, reports the results on the links with growth … from a variety of econometric approaches. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on …

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Population Density, Optimal Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Deole, Sumit S. - 2015

data for years 1961-2012 on India, the study examines the role of dense population and transportation infrastructure on … transportation infrastructure on economic growth. The study argues that there is an optimal distribution of infrastructure in the … the population induced productivity improvements and provision of optimal infrastructure in the region will form the two …

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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument

Dreher, Axel - 2017

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that...

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Austerity

Dellas, Harris - 2015

We shed light on the function, properties and optimal size of austerity using the standard sovereign debt model augmented to include incomplete information about credit risk. Austerity is defined as the shortfall of consumption from the level desired by a country and supported by its repayment...

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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The Volatility Curse : Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2013

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...

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Geopolitics, Aid and Growth

Dreher, Axel - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries' political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy's...

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On the Conditional Effects of IMF Program Participation on Output Growth

Binder, Michael - 2013

The empirical evidence currently available in the literature regarding the effects of a country's IMF program participation on its output growth is rather mixed. To shed new evidence on this issue, in this paper we specify a state- dependent panel data model accounting in particular for program...

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Cyclical Fiscal Policy, Output Volatility, and Economic Growth

Badinger, Harald - 2021

This paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relation between the cyclicality of fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004. Identification of the effects of (endogenous) cyclical fiscal...

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