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Financing Infrastructure in India : Macroeconomic Lessons and Emerging Market Case Studies

Walsh, James - 2011

Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been challenging in many countries. This study includes two parts: an empirical analysis of macroeconomic risks associated with infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging...

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Financing infrastructure in India : macroeconomic lessons and emerging market : case studies

Walsh, James P.; Park, Chanho; Yu, Jiangyan - 2011

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Filling the gap : infrastructure investment in Brazil

Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes; Goes, Carlos; Karpowicz, Izabela - 2015

efficiency, and hindering domestic integration and export performance. This paper assesses the state of Brazil's infrastructure …, in light of past investment trends and various quality and quantity indicators. Brazil's infrastructure stock and its …

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Domestic market integration and the law of one price in Brazil

Góes, Carlos; Matheson, Troy - 2015

This paper presents the first assessment domestic market integration in Brazil using the law of one price. The law of … one price is tested using two panel unit root methodologies and a unique data set comprising price indices for 51 products … for other countries, price convergence occurs very slowly in Brazil, suggesting relatively limited domestic market …

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Trade Finance and Trade Flows : Panel Data Evidence From 10 Crises

Ronci, Márcio Valério - 2004

This paper assesses the effect of constrained trade finance on trade flows in countries undergoing financial and balance of payments crises. Most of the countries that had a major crisis had a significant trade contraction, while trade-related finance declined sharply. However, trade may also be...

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A unified model of cohort mortality for economic analysis

Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Moreau, Flavien - 2021

We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model sheds light on the dynamics behind many phenomena...

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Health Aid and Infant Mortality

Newhouse, David Locke - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant...

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Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal

Issoufou, Salifou - 2014

Senegal's fiscal deficit and public debt have been on the rise in recent years owing partly to an ailing and inefficient oil-based energy sector. In this paper we use a two-sector, open-economy, dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of varying fiscal policy instruments one...

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Future of Asia’s Finance : How Can it Meet Challenges of Demographic Change and Infrastructure Needs?

Ding, Ding - 2014

There is a role for Asia’s financial sector to play to address the challenges associated with the region’s changing demographics and infrastructure investment needs. Enhancing financial innovation and integration in the region could facilitate intra-regional financial flows and mobilize...

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Natural Gas, Public Investment and Debt Sustainability in Mozambique

Melina, Giovanni - 2013

Mozambique has great potential in natural gas reserves and if liquefied/commercialized the sum of taxes and other fiscal revenue from natural gas will, at its peak, reach roughly one third of total fiscal revenue. Recent developments in the natural resource sector have triggered a fresh round of...

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