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How do Economic Growth and Food Inflation Affect Food Insecurity?

Bogmans, Christian - 2024

During the global recession of 2020 food insecurity increased substantially in many countries around the world. Fortunately, the surge in food insecurity quickly came to a halt as the world economy returned to its positive growth path, despite double-digit domestic food inflation in most...

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Fiscal Policy and Economic Development

Mourmouras, Alex - 2008

This paper offers possible explanations for three generally observed facts about fiscal policy and development: (F1) The relative size of government increases as an economy develops, (F2) The rise in government and taxation are associated with rising or constant economic growth rates, and (F3)...

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Development Aid and Economic Growth

Reddy, Sanjay - 2009

We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...

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Tourism Specialization and Economic Development

Piotrowski, John M. - 2009

The present paper investigates whether tourism specialization is a viable strategy for development. We estimate standard growth equations augmented with a variable measuring tourism specialization using instrumental variables techniques for a large cross-section of countries for the period...

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Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the MAMS Model

Fund, International Monetary - 2009

This paper analyses economic implications and the transmission mechanisms of different options for creating and using fiscal space. For creating fiscal space, we consider prioritizing expenditures, raising revenue, and scaled-up aid. Fiscal space is used for increasing health and education...

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Mind the Gap - Is Economic Growth in India Leaving Some States Behind?.

Purfield, Catriona - 2006

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Advancing India’s Structural Transformation and Catch-up to the Technology Frontier

Alonso, Cristian - 2024

, we first take stock of India’s growth to date. We find that economic activity has shifted from agriculture to services …, but agriculture remains the predominant employer. Catch up to the technological frontier has been uneven, with limited … progress in agriculture, but also in construction and trade, which have grown the most in terms of employment. We do find some …

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Benchmarking Structural Transformation Across the World

Dabla-Norris, Era; Thomas, Alun H.; Garcia-Verdu, Rodrigo; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

analyzes its determinants using data on real value added by sector of economic activity (agriculture, manufacturing and …

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Fiscal Policy and Economic Development

Mourmouras, Alex; Rangazas, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

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Will there Be New Emerging-Market Economies in Africa b+L2280y the Year 2020?

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Söderling, Ludvig - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture. …

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