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Productivity growth effects of structural reforms: Evidence from developing countriesWhich structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by combining the local projections method and the inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (LP-IPWRA) method...
Labour productivity Reforms Business cyclesWorking Paper
Reigniting labour productivity growth in developing countries: Do structural reforms matter?While the negative effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on labour productivity are still fresh in people’s minds, the COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns that productivity will continue to decline...
Labour productivity Business cycles Economic growthJournal Article
Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
Business cycles Econometric models Economic assistance and foreign aidJournal Article
Aid Supplies Over Time: Addressing Heterogeneity, Trends, and DynamicsPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisJournal Article
Business Cycle Fluctuations, Large Macroeconomic Shocks, and Development AidPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountabilityBook Chapter
Women’s Labour Supply and Household Insurance in AfricaThis paper investigates whether cyclical variation in women’s labour supply in Africa contributes to smoothing household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis...
Business cycles Insurance Labour supplyBlog
Job Creation and the Business Cycle in Brazil
What type of business destroys proportionately more jobs during times of economic recessions and hires more in booms?...
Business cycles Credit Economic growthWorking Paper
Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in AfricaThis paper develops a model of opportunistic behaviour in which an incumbent government resort to expansionary fiscal and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election...
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Econometric models (Economic development)Lecture
Real business cycle theoryInvited Guest Lecturer, Yongfu Huang, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER on 'Real Business Cycle Theory'. The lecture is on real business cycle model covering the effects of global shocks on economic fluctuations and business cycle in the context...
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The Supply Side of AidIn the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 interest in the supply side of the donor equation has been rekindled...
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisWorking Paper
Women’s Labour Supply and Household Insurance in AfricaThis paper investigates whether cyclical variation in women’s labour supply in Africa contributes to smoothing household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis...
Business cycles Insurance Labour supplyJournal Article
Is Economic Volatility Detrimental to Global Sustainability?In a dynamic panel data model allowing for error cross-section dependence, output volatility is found to impede sustainable development...
Business cycles Capital investments Economic developmentWorking Paper
Aid Supplies Over Time: Accounting for Heterogeneity, Trends and DynamicsThe recent financial crisis has rekindled interest in the foreign aid supply behaviour of bilateral donors. Using the latest data covering the period 1960-2009, this paper examines how such behaviour is related to domestic factors...
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisWorking Paper
When Unstable, Growth Is Less Pro-PoorMacroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction...
Business cycles Economic development Income distributionBook Chapter
India's Economic Growth: Lessons for the Emerging EconomiesFrom the book: The Rise of China and India
Business cycles Economic development ConvergenceWorking Paper
Indian Economic Growth: Lessons for the Emerging EconomiesCan we use neoclassical growth model to single out the important transmission channels through which external factors or ‘primitives’ affected the Indian economy and caused the remarkable growth of the period 1982–2002?...
Business cycles Economic development Convergence