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Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moser, Gary G. - 2001

This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Employing a panel of 46 countries covering the period 1972-97, the analysis finds that a 10 percent increase in per capita GDP leads to a 1 percent increase in life...

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Financial Liberalization and the Information Content of Money in Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines

Hamann, Alfonso Javier - 1993

countries that underwent financial sector reform during the 1980s: Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines. Special attention is … prices in Korea, on prices only in the Philippines, and did not contain any advance information in Indonesia. The … with the reforms—contain valuable information about future developments in prices in Korea and the Philippines …

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Rethinking development policy : deindustrialization, servicification and structural transformation

Atolia, Manoj; Loungani, Prakash; Marquis, Milton H.; … - 2018

This paper takes a fresh look at the current theories of structural transformation and the role of private and public fundamentals in the process. It summarizes some representative past and current experiences of various countries vis-a-vis structural transformation with a focus on the roles of...

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Reinvigorating growth in Belize

Vasilʹev, D. S. - 2019

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Belize grew faster than its regional peers. By the mid-2000s, however, economic growth had slowed down to the regional average. A vicious circle of low growth and increasing public debt has been clouding Belize's outlook. This paper applies a growth diagnostic...

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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2007

This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA swamps remittances, this paper finds that...

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Public Investment as an Engine of Growth

Warner, Andrew M. - 2014

This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...

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Identifying Constraints to Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP and Inequality: A Structural Framework for Policy

2015 - Dabla-Norris, Era ; Ji, Yan ; Townsend, Robert ; Unsal, D. Filiz ed

development�three low-income countries (Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique), and three emerging market countries (Malaysia, the Philippines …

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Potential Growth in Emerging Asia

Anand, Rahul - 2014

estimates potential growth for China, India, and five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and …

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Debt Overhang, Debt Reduction and Investment : The Case of the Philippines

International Monetary Fund - 1990

of foreign debt acts as a disincentive to private investment in the specific case of the Philippines. The empirical …

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Social and Political Factors in a Model of Endogenous Economic Growth and Distribution : An Application to the Philippines

Villanueva, Delano - 1996

This paper proposes a model of endogenous economic growth and distribution explicitly incorporating social extraction and political competition, with an application to the Philippine historical experience. The major objective is to explain developments in the distribution of national income and...

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