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This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid sectors, e.g., education aid. In doing this, detailed use is...
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importance for official development assistance. …
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There is scant analysis on the causal relationship between fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in the developing world. We investigate the causal relationship between fiscal capacity of the state and social protection expenditure, hypothesizing that fiscal capacity is necessary but...
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that strong rule of law institutions may ameliorate the possible adverse effects of political and economic crises on … heterogeneous effects depending on the type of crisis and how we measure it. We find that rule of law institutions can control …
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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externality. This paper reviews the recent economic literature on diaspora networks and development from the perspective of the … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …
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years. This stems from, among other things, recognition in the Sustainable Development Goals that further domestic funding … is required for development needs, and the Addis Tax Initiative, which aims to foster fairer and more effective domestic …
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Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research …
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prior engagement with a local development NGO. In partnership with this NGO, we then stratify a randomized technology …
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This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
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