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Flow of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries :Part of Book External Finance for Private Sector Development
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Are African Countries Paying Too Much Attention To Agriculture?Luc Christiaensen and Lionel Demery Escalating food prices in 2007-2008, climate change and land grabbing have woken the world up to the extraordinary...
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The Economic Costs of Climate ChangePart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensions of economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data modelsThe goal of this paper is to evaluate the results of regional economic growth model estimations at multiple spatial scales using spatial panel data models. The spatial scales examined are minimum comparable areas, microregions, mesoregions and states...
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Globalization and Regional Income InequalityChina’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the world economy, which aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper discusses China...
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Income Distribution and Growth's Ability to Reduce PovertyThe present study examines the degree to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic needs approach, an analysis...
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Monetary Policy in the Franc ZoneThis paper examines to what extent the central bank for the West African Economic and Monetary Union (BCEAO) has used interest rate policy in response to domestic economic developments. We show that while in the long run the BCEAO matches changes in...
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What Money Can't BuyThis paper relates Amartya Sen’s capability approach to the literature on equivalence scales. Synthetic indicators of well-being are constructed by adjusting individual incomes for differences in functionings. An exploratory comparative application...
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Pillars of ProsperityBook review on: T. Besley and T. Persson (2011). Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters. Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson embark on a new research agenda in their book ‘Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics...
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Efficiency frontier and matching process on the labour marketThe purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of the inefficient functioning of the Tunisian labour market. The study takes advantage of the recent development in the stochastic frontier techniques and estimates, the matching function for...
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Commodity Price Fluctuations and Macro-economic Adjustments in the Developed CountriesCommodity price fluctuations have been troublesome in their destabilising effects on the foreign exchange earnings of developing countries. Recently, however, attention has been drawn to their role in transmitting inflation and in inducing...
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From the Editor's Desk (March 2012)
Tony Addison With the ice floes now gone from the harbour outside the UNU-WIDER building, and with the snow replaced by an icy hail, there is a...
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Déterminants de l'Endettement Extérieur des PPTEIn the 1980s most of Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA) especially the HIPCs faced an unprecedented indebtedness. Different mechanisms of debt relief as well as economic reforms have been put in place with the objective of enabling these countries...
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Role of the Household and Community in Determining Child HealthNutritional status at a young age is positively associated with an individual’s total human capital accumulated. Higher levels of human capital are in turn strongly correlated with an individual’s economic and social well-being. Health is one such...
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Income Inequality and Growth in Transition EconomiesThis paper analyses the relationship between income inequality and growth in transition economies. The distinct and complex dynamics adherent to these economies lead to the proposition of new econometric models in the paper. However, empirical...
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The Economic Costs of Climate ChangeUnlike existing studies, we adopt a multi-sectoral approach and consider the full range of climate projections. Biophysical damages are translated into economic costs using a dynamic economywide model. Our results for Vietnam indicate that the...
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