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Are Windfalls a Curse? A Non-Representative Agent Model of the Current Account and Fiscal Policy

Tornell, Aaron; Lane, Philip R. - 2021

In several countries temporary terms of trade improvements have led to a deterioration of the current account. Furthermore, many of these countries failed to attain greater post-boom growth rates. The point we make is that the structure of the fiscal process is critical in determining outcomes....

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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa

Rainer, Ilia - 2012

The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...

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Reinventing the Wheel : The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa

Chaves, Isaias N.; Engerman, Stanley L.; Robinson, … - 2013

Nigeria, i.e., railways there had a social rate of return of around 100%. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, railways appear …

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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote D'Ivoire : Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

Duflo, Esther; Udry, Christopher - 2021

We study resource allocation within households in Côte d'Ivoire. In Côte d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of...

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Growth, Macroeconomics, and Development

Fischer, Stanley - 2021

policy -- as reflected for instance in the rate of inflation and the budget deficit -- in determining growth. This paper … macroeconomic policy choices, including the budget deficit, the exchange rate system, and those choices that determine the inflation …

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Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis

Eskeland, Gunnar S.; Harrison, Ann E. - 2021

This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at best. We then examine whether foreign firms pollute...

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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence

Erdem, Erkan; Tybout, James R. - 2021

Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...

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Patterns of Aging in Thailand and Cote D'Ivoire

Deaton, Angus - 2007

This paper is broadly concerned with the living standards of older people in two contrasting developing countries, Cote d'Ivoire and Thailand. We use a series of household surveys from these two countries to present evidence on factors affecting the living standards of the elderly: living...

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …

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Inflation Stabilization and Bop Crises in Developing Countries

Calvo, Guillermo; Végh, Carlos A. - 2021

High and persistent inflation has been one of the distinguishing macroeconomic characteristics of many developing … countries since the end of World War II. Countries afflicted by chronic inflation, however, have not taken their fate lightly … to inflation stabilization policies and balance of payment crises in developing countries …

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