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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
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There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...
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at benchmarks of scale and timing so as to put potential booms into the context of the challenges of growth and …
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direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and … direct investment have positive and significant impacts on economic growth in the short and long terms, while the impact of … the labour force on growth was significantly negative in both terms, a result that may be attributable to the fact that …
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endogeneity problem in the aid-growth relationship. Evidence from a panel VAR model estimated on the dataset of NDHKM, suggests a …
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We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in...
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and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset … have an effect on growth. We find evidence to support the most recent studies showing that aid has a positive impact on … growth. We however, do not find evidence to support the proposition that institutional quality is a sine qua non conditional …
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although there has been substantial economic growth, only a relatively small group of the new middle-income countries have … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …
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macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt …
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and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on economic growth forecasts, take into account recent global shocks such as … the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation shock. Our findings indicate that economic growth alone will not be sufficient to … this, we argue, is that a stronger focus is needed on inclusive growth (SDG-8), and specifically redistribution with growth …
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