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Local Sources Of Financing For Infrastructure In Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
With the exception of South Africa, local financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa remain underdeveloped and small, with a particular dearth of financing with maturity terms commensurate with the...
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Long-Term Financial Incentives And Investment In Daughters: Evidence From Conditional Cash Transfers In North India
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son preference among parents and encourage investment in daughters' education and health....
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Multilateral Debt Relief Through The Eyes Of Financial Markets
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The economic benefits of debt relief for recipient countries have been the subject of arduous debate, at least partly motivated by the difficulty of identifying the causal effect of debt relief on...
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Local Financial Development And Growth
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Using a unique sample of net domestic product data for districts in India, the author investigates the connection between banking sector development, human capital, and economic growth at the...
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Are All The Sacred Cows Dead? Implications Of The Financial Crisis For Macro And Financial Policies
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The recent global financial crisis has shaken the confidence of developed and developing countries alike in the very blueprint of financial and macro policies that underlie the western capitalist...
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Public Finance, Security, And Development: A Framework And An Application To Afghanistan
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple...
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Crises, Capital Controls, And Financial Integration
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the effects of capital controls and crises on international financial integration, using data on stocks from emerging economies that trade in domestic and international...
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Black Hole Or Black Gold? The Impact Of Oil And Gas Prices On Indonesia's Public Finances
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the impact of higher international oil prices on the Indonesian government's fiscal...
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Bank Competition And Financial Stability
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Under the traditional "Competition-fragility" view, more bank competition erodes market power, decreases profit margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking....
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Financing Rural Development For A Harmonious Society In China: Recent Reforms In Public Finance And Their Prospects
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Government of China has placed strong emphasis on addressing problems related to agriculture, farmers, and rural society, with the development of a "New socialist countryside" designated as a...
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Bank Competition And Financial Stability: Friends Or Foes?
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Theory makes ambiguous predictions about the relationship between market structure and competitiveness of the banking system and banking sector stability. Empirical studies focusing on individual...
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Microfinance Meets The Market
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance institutions have proved the possibility of providing reliable banking services to poor customers. Their second aim is to do so in a commercially-viable way. This paper analyzes the...
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The Process Of Financial Development: A Statistical View From The FSAP Program
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses a simple statistical approach to exploit some of the wealth of information contained in FSAP reports. The authors classify and count FSAP recommendations along a logical grid that...
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Beyond Aid: New Sources And Innovative Mechanisms For Financing Development In Sub-Saharan Africa
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Given Sub-Saharan Africa's enormous resource needs for growth, poverty reduction, and other Millennium Development Goals, the development community has little choice but to continue to explore new...
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Windfall Management For Poverty Reduction: Improving Public Finance Management
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at providing a guide to ensure efficiency in the management of Chad's windfall to support the development process and poverty reduction. The analysis is based on the lessons and...
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Financing Lifelong Learning
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes and analyzes different financial schemes to promote lifelong learning. Considered are financial instruments to stimulate successful early learning, financial aid schemes and...
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Measuring Financial Protection In Health
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial consequences of receiving medical care. Anecdotal evidence suggests health...
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The Demographic, Economic And Financial Determinants Of International Remittances In Developing Countries
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of...
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Bank Financing To Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) In Colombia
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The objective of this paper is to shed light on current trends and policy challenges in the financing of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) by banks in Colombia. The paper is motivated by...
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Managing Post-Disaster Reconstruction Finance: International Experience In Public Financial Management
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In recent years, natural and man-made disasters have confronted the international community with its most demanding reconstruction challenges since the aftermath of World War II. Managing the...
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The Growing Role Of The Euro In Emerging Market Finance
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
More than eight years after the introduction of the euro, impacts on developing countries have been relatively modest. Overall, the euro has become much more important in debt issuance than in...
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Financial Development And Innovation In Small Firms
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses firm level data from a cross-section of 57 countries to study how financial development affects innovation in small firms. The analysis finds that relative to large firms in the...
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Sovereign Natural Disaster Insurance For Developing Countries: A Paradigm Shift In Catastrophe Risk Financing
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Economic theory suggests that countries should ignore uncertainty for public investment and behave as if indifferent to risk because they can pool risks to a much greater extent than private...
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Innovative Experiences In Access To Finance: Market Friendly Roles For The Visible Hand?
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Interest in access to finance has increased significantly in recent years, as growing evidence suggests that lack of access to credit prevents lower-income households and small firms from...
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Strengthening The Governance And Performance Of State-Owned Financial Institutions
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Corporate governance arrangements define the responsibilities, authorities and accountabilities of owners, boards of directors, and executive managers of a company. Good corporate governance is as...
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Economic Information And Finance: More Information Means More Credit, Fewer Bad Loans And Less Corruption
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper builds on recent work that shows how financial sector outcomes are affected by the provision of information by financial and other entities. In particular, it shows that an indicator of...
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Financial Intermediation In The Pre-Consolidated Banking Sector In Nigeria
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses unique bank-by-bank balance sheet and income statement information to investigate the intermediation efficiency in the Nigerian pre-consolidated banking sector during 2000-2005....
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Financing Of The Private Sector In Mexico, 2000-2005: Evolution, Composition And Determinants
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The objective of this paper is to describe the evolution, composition and determinants of financing to the non-financial private sector in Mexico between 2000 and 2005. Supported by the...
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Public Finance, Governance, And Growth In Transition Economies: Empirical Evidence From 1992-2004
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper revisits the early empirical literature on economic growth in transition economies, with particular focus on fiscal policy variables: fiscal balance and the size of government. The...
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Finance For All? Policies And Pitfalls In Expanding Access
November 6, 2007, 12:00am PST
Financial markets and institutions exist to mitigate the effects of information asymmetries and transaction costs that prevent the direct pooling and investment of society's savings. Financial...
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Fiscal Policy Instruments For Reducing Congestion And Atmospheric Emissions In The Transport Sector : A Review
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews the literature on the fiscal policy instruments commonly used to reduce transport sector externalities. The findings show that congestion charges would reduce vehicle traffic by...
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Inclusive Growth Analytics : Framework And Application
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper argues that inclusive growth analytics has a distinct character focusing on both the pace and pattern of growth. Traditionally, applied country-specific poverty and growth analyses have...
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Industrialization In Malaysia: Changing Role Of Government And Foreign Firms
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the changing role of government and foreign firms in Malaysia's industrialization process. Economists have held different views of the role of government in industrialization....
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Transitional Dynamics In The Solow-Swan Growth Model With AK Technology And Logistic Population Change
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper offers an alternative way, based on the logistic population growth hypothesis, to yield transitional dynamics in the standard AK model with exogenous savings rate. Within this...
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Real Exchange Rates, Saving And Growth: Is There A Link?
October 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The view that policies directed at the real exchange rate can have an important effect on economic growth has been gaining adherents in recent years. Unlike the traditional "Misalignment" view...
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Trend Growth And The Dynamic Effects Of Government Spending
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper studies the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in an economy characterized by positive trend growth. It shows that the lower is the trend growth rate the less...
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Macro Regime And Economic Growth In China
June 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between Chinese macroeconomic policy and economic growth, and examine how the choice of macroeconomic regime affects economic performance in...
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The Determinants Of Provincial Growth In Indonesia During 1983 - 2003
June 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The discussion of income disparity has emphasized the need for research in finding the growth determinant. This paper will investigate the determinants of provincial growth of income per capita....
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Two Views On Institutions And Development: The Grand Transition Vs The Primacy Of Institutions
June 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly...
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Rising R&D Intensity And Economic Growth
May 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Over the past decades, private R&D spending in the US and other developed countries has been growing faster than GDP. In the United States, for example, R&D expenditures (excluding those funded by...
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A Two-Sector Model Of Public Investment And Growth
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a two-sector economy, where public infrastructure unevenly affects the productivity of the sectors. Private and public capitals are produced with different technologies, and...
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Engel's Law And Growth With Directed Technical Change
May 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a tractable endogenous two-sector growth model with non-Gorman intra-temporal preferences and directed technical change. One of the two consumption goods is a necessity,...
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Religious Orders And Growth Through Cultural Change In Pre-Industrial England
June 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors advance the hypothesis that cultural values such as high work ethics and thrift, "The Protestant ethic" according to MaxWeber, may have been diffused long before the Reformation,...
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Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Constraints, And Endogenous Growth
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is concerned with the role of firm heterogeneity under credit constraints for economic growth. The authors focus on firm size, innovativeness and credit constraints in a semi-endogenous...
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International Growth Spillovers, Geography And Infrastructure
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is significant academic evidence that growth in one country tends to have a positive impact on growth in neighboring countries. This paper contributes to this literature by assessing whether...
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The Growth Report And New Structural Economics
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite its heavy human, financial, and economic cost, the recent global recession provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the knowledge from several decades of growth research, draw policy...
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Saving And Growth In Egypt
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper illustrates the mechanisms linking national saving and economic growth, with the purpose of understanding the possibilities and limits of a saving-based growth agenda in the context of...
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Growth Poles And Multipolarity
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops an empirical measure of growth poles and uses it to examine the phenomenon of multipolarity. The authors formally define several alternative measures, provide theoretical...
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Remittances And The Global Financial Crisis
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Migrant remittances are an important source of external finance for developing countries. The current financial crisis is believed to have influenced migrant remittance flows as well as volume and...
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How Global Rules Are Established And Stabilized
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes how international rules are established and stabilized, i.e. how an international institutional order develops. Rules emerge mainly through learning from negative experience...
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Global Current Account Imbalances And Exchange Rate Adjustment: The Role Of Oil Suppliers
July 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The present paper extends the Obstfeld and Rogoff (2005) framework of current account imbalances by the oil exporting countries as a fourth region. It sets the stage for a variety of analysis that...
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Rebalancing, Growth, And Development In A Multipolar Global Economy
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Reduction of large and persistent external imbalances is currently a key focus of G-20 discussions. The paper argues that in a progressively multipolar world economy, the goals of global...
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Global Factors, Unemployment Adjustment And The Natural Rate
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a range of common patterns. Using a panel of 21 OECD countries 1960-2002, the...
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Monetary Policy Transmission And The Phillips Curve In A Global Context
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The standard derivation of a Phillips curve from a DSGE model requires that all variables are measured as deviations from their steady states. But in practice this is not done. The steady state...
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Toward A Switchover Of Locomotives In The Global Economy
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The recovery in advanced economies is now exhibiting several signs of fragility and the medium-term growth prospects for these economies also look difficult. Could developing economies "Switch...
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Monetary Policy Committee Size And Inflation Volatility
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Previous research on the optimal size of a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) focused on theoretical analyses and experimental studies. These studies suggest that the ideal monetary policy committee...
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Unions Power, Collective Bargaining And Optimal Monetary Policy
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors study the design of optimal monetary policy (Ramsey policies) in a model with sticky prices and unionized labor markets. Collective wage bargaining and unions monopoly power tend to...
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Imports, Pass-Through, And The Structure Of Retail Markets
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail market structure, imports and social welfare. They are especially...
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Globalization, Pass-Through And Inflation Dynamic
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
An important aspect of the globalization process is the increase in interdependence among countries through the deepening of trade linkages. This process should increase competition in each...
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Banking Structures And Financial Stability
March 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Under the traditional "Competition-fragility" view, more bank competition erodes market power, decreases profit margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking....
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Finance And Economic Opportunity
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the theory of how financial markets influence economic opportunity and reviews recent empirical work on the relation between formal financial systems and poverty, income...
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Regulating and Overseeing Mobile Payments: A Payment Systems Perspective
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Payment System Development Group is at the center of an international network, whose main objective is supporting countries to reform Payments, Remittances and Securities Settlement Systems. A...
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