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State-dependent fiscal multipliers and financial dynamics: An impulse response analysis by local projections for South AfricaThe aim of this paper is to assess South Africa’s fiscal multiplier across different states of the economy, with a focus on the financial accelerator mechanism of fiscal policy shocks, by estimating impulse response functions from both linear a...
Fiscal multipliers impulse response State-dependentWorking Paper
Putting the financial system to work for the poor and SMEsThe financial inclusion effort achieved positive results, with the number of Mozambicans having access to banking services increasing considerably, particularly after 2011–12...
Credit Guarantees Financial inclusionWorking Paper
Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in VietnamSingle-party political systems exist in a number of countries, such as China and Vietnam. In these countries, party membership is potentially an important source of economic and social status...
Communist Income CreditBook Chapter
A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton WoodsFrom the book: Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
Balance of payments Credit Financial institutionsWorking Paper
The effects of land titling in TanzaniaWe use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania...
Property rights Land titling AgricultureWorking Paper
A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton WoodsThis paper provides a historical background to contemporary debates on the international monetary system: their genesis, similarities, and differences of problems it has faced at different times...
Balance of payments Credit Financial institutions, InternationalVideo
Social ProtectionConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 6.2
Households Natural disasters CreditBlog
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 growthJournal Article
Political Connections and Land-Related Investment in Rural VietnamPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Credit Informal sector InvestmentsJournal Article
The economics of counterinsurgency: Some evidence from Andhra PradeshPresent in India since the 1960s, the Naxalite insurgency has steadily spread across the country...
Conflict management Construction industries CreditWorking Paper
Does Financial Liberalisation Improve Access to Investment Finance in Developing Countries?This paper considers the effect of financial liberalisation on access to investment finance using firm level data covering 57 developing and transition countries...
Credit Finance Financial institutionsWorking Paper
Political Connections and Investment in Rural VietnamThis paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of political or bureaucratic power on farmers’ agricultural investment decisions...
Credit Informal sector InvestmentsJournal Article
The Forgotten Property Rights: Evidence on Land Use Rights in VietnamStudies of land property rights usually focus on tenure security and transfer rights. Rights to determine how to use the land are regularly ignored. However, user rights are often limited...
Credit Informal sector InvestmentsWorking Paper
Foreign Banks and Credit Volatility: The Case of Latin American CountriesForeign bank presence has substantially increased in Latin America during the second half of the 1990s, which has prompted an intense debate on its banking and macroeconomic consequences...
Banking Credit Money supplyJournal Article
Credit Demand in Mozambican ManufacturingThis paper uses two industrial firm surveys to identify the key determinants of credit demand in Mozambican manufacturing. We construct five different measures of being credit constrained and estimate desired debt demand...
Credit ManufacturingJournal Article
Credit Constraints, Entrepreneurial Talent, and Economic DevelopmentPart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics
Credit Economic development Entrepreneurship