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No. 292 | 01 Sept 2010 |
The Renminbi and Poor-Country Growth
Discussions on how best to exit from global imbalances to create a more balanced world economy have ignored the impact on poor countries of proposals to redress these imbalances. This paper aims at filling that gap. It gauges the degree of renminbi... |
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No. 291 | 25 Aug 2010 |
Fiscal Policy in Latin America
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to the 2009 crisis. We present original estimates of cyclically-adjusted public revenues for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico,... |
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No. 290 | 21 Apr 2010 |
On the Role of Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of Latin... |
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No. 289 | 21 Apr 2010 |
South America for the Chinese?
The case for a natural resource curse is based on the argument that in the absence of challenges, there is no progress. Is South America cursed by its natural resources? Does China’s rapid penetration of the region renew the region’s comparative... |
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No. 288 | 01 Feb 2010 |
Innovation, Productivity and Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
GDP per capita in Latin America has been falling behind high-income countries and other benchmarks for decades and the region’s mediocre growth performance is one of the main reasons why poverty reduction, and living standards more generally, in the... |
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No. 286 | 26 Jan 2010 |
Does Trade Stimulate Innovation?
This paper investigates whether increased import competition leads firms to engage in incremental innovation reflected in product quality upgrading. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean manufacturing firms and their products.... |
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No. 285 | 26 Jan 2010 |
The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries
The shift in global goods production towards Asia is well documented. But global consumer demand has so far been concentrated in the rich economies of the OECD. Will that also shift towards Asia as these countries get richer? This paper defines a... |
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No. 284 | 05 Jan 2010 |
Crushed Aid
This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing world... |
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No. 283 | 03 Jan 2010 |
Are Sovereign Wealth Funds' Investments Politically Biased?
Global allocation of capital and fluctuations in asset prices are increasingly influenced by the activities of Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). The Santiago Principles called for higher transparency, stressing that SWFs should exhibit clearer... |
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No. 287 | 03 Jan 2010 |
Why Do so many Women End up in Bad Jobs?
There is an increasing concern in the development community about the increase in the ‘feminisation of bad jobs’ of many developing countries. Indeed, recent analysis shows a growing proportion of women are in jobs with poor working conditions and... |
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No. 282 | 09 Oct 2009 |
Are Workers' Remittances Relevant for Credit Rating Agencies?
Remittance flows are an important source of financing for developing countries. In addition to the microeconomic impact at the household level, remittances have grown into an important pillar of macroeconomic stability, reducing volatility of... |
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No. 281 | 14 Aug 2009 |
Revisiting Political Budget Cycles in Latin America
In this paper we test the impact of elections on fiscal policy in Latin American economies in comparison to OECD countries over the period 1990-2006. We find that in Latin American countries, the average primary balance declines by an amount close to... |
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No. 280 | 30 Jul 2009 |
Coherence of Development Policies
This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid. It seeks to assess the potential (in)coherence between... |
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No. 279 | 15 Jul 2009 |
Herding in Aid Allocation
Aid ineffectiveness, fragmentation, and volatility have already been highlighted by scholars and OECD studies. Far fewer studies have been devoted to another problem of capital flows: herding behaviour. Building upon a methodology applied to... |
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No. 278 | 30 Jun 2009 |
Are all Migrants Really Worse off in Urban Labour Markets?
The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the welfare of migrants working in urban regions, particularly to their working conditions and pay; serious concern is raised regarding... |
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No. 277 | 30 Mar 2009 |
Taking Stock of the Credit Crunch
This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI. It argues that the channels of... |
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No. 276 | 11 Mar 2009 |
Extracting the Maximum from the EITI
For many countries rich in oil, gas and minerals, development remains an elusive goal. The rich get richer, the poor stay poor, inequality rises, economies stagnate, corruption flourishes and conflict deepens. The Extractive Industries Transparency... |
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No. 275 | 01 Dec 2008 |
Development Aid and Portfolio Funds
This paper presents stylised facts about development aid and capital flows to developing countries. It compares their volumes and volatilities and finds that foreign aid is not the major source of finance for these countries any more, though not for... |
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No. 274 | 01 Nov 2008 |
Who Saw Sovereign Debt Crises Coming?
This paper studies sovereign debt crises during the period 1993-2006 through the prism of the primary sovereign bond market. Two conclusions emerge. First, investment banks price sovereign default risk well before crises occur and before investors... |
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No. 273 | 01 Nov 2008 |
Aid Volatility and Macro Risks in Low-Income Countries
The report argues that aid volatility is an important source of volatility for the poorest countries. Following a method already applied by the Agence Française de Développement, the report argues that loans to LICs should incorporate a floating... |
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The Renminbi and Poor-Country Growth
Christopher Garroway, Burcu Hacibedel, Helmut Reisen et Edouard Turkisch
01 Sept 2010
Discussions on how best to exit from global imbalances to create a more balanced world economy have ignored the impact on poor countries of proposals to redress these imbalances. This paper aims at filling that gap. It gauges the degree of renminbi...
Fiscal Policy in Latin America
Christian Daude, Ángel Melguizo et Alejandro Neut
25 Aug 2010
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to the 2009 crisis. We present original estimates of cyclically-adjusted public revenues for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico,...
On the Role of Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Christian Daude et Eduardo Fernández-Arias
21 Apr 2010
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of Latin...
South America for the Chinese?
Eliana Cardoso et Márcio Holland
21 Apr 2010
The case for a natural resource curse is based on the argument that in the absence of challenges, there is no progress. Is South America cursed by its natural resources? Does China’s rapid penetration of the region renew the region’s comparative...
Innovation, Productivity and Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Christian Daude
01 Feb 2010
GDP per capita in Latin America has been falling behind high-income countries and other benchmarks for decades and the region’s mediocre growth performance is one of the main reasons why poverty reduction, and living standards more generally, in the...
Does Trade Stimulate Innovation?
Ana Margarida Fernandes et Caroline Paunov
26 Jan 2010
This paper investigates whether increased import competition leads firms to engage in incremental innovation reflected in product quality upgrading. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean manufacturing firms and their products....
The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries
Homi Kharas
26 Jan 2010
The shift in global goods production towards Asia is well documented. But global consumer demand has so far been concentrated in the rich economies of the OECD. Will that also shift towards Asia as these countries get richer? This paper defines a...
Crushed Aid
Emmanuel Frot et Javier Santiso
05 Jan 2010
This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing world...
Are Sovereign Wealth Funds' Investments Politically Biased?
Rolando Avendaño et Javier Santiso
03 Jan 2010
Global allocation of capital and fluctuations in asset prices are increasingly influenced by the activities of Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). The Santiago Principles called for higher transparency, stressing that SWFs should exhibit clearer...
Why Do so many Women End up in Bad Jobs?
Johannes Jütting, Angela Luci et Christian Morrisson
03 Jan 2010
There is an increasing concern in the development community about the increase in the ‘feminisation of bad jobs’ of many developing countries. Indeed, recent analysis shows a growing proportion of women are in jobs with poor working conditions and...
Are Workers' Remittances Relevant for Credit Rating Agencies?
Rolando Avendaño, Norbert Gaillard et Sebastián Nieto Parra
09 Oct 2009
Remittance flows are an important source of financing for developing countries. In addition to the microeconomic impact at the household level, remittances have grown into an important pillar of macroeconomic stability, reducing volatility of...
Revisiting Political Budget Cycles in Latin America
Sebastián Nieto Parra et Javier Santiso
14 Aug 2009
In this paper we test the impact of elections on fiscal policy in Latin American economies in comparison to OECD countries over the period 1990-2006. We find that in Latin American countries, the average primary balance declines by an amount close to...
Coherence of Development Policies
Iliana Olivié
30 Jul 2009
This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid. It seeks to assess the potential (in)coherence between...
Herding in Aid Allocation
Emmanuel Frot et Javier Santiso
15 Jul 2009
Aid ineffectiveness, fragmentation, and volatility have already been highlighted by scholars and OECD studies. Far fewer studies have been devoted to another problem of capital flows: herding behaviour. Building upon a methodology applied to...
Are all Migrants Really Worse off in Urban Labour Markets?
Jason Gagnon, Theodora Xenogiani et Chunbing Xing
30 Jun 2009
The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the welfare of migrants working in urban regions, particularly to their working conditions and pay; serious concern is raised regarding...
Taking Stock of the Credit Crunch
Andrew Mold, Sebastian Paulo et Annalisa Prizon
30 Mar 2009
This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI. It argues that the channels of...
Extracting the Maximum from the EITI
Dilan Ölcer
11 Mar 2009
For many countries rich in oil, gas and minerals, development remains an elusive goal. The rich get richer, the poor stay poor, inequality rises, economies stagnate, corruption flourishes and conflict deepens. The Extractive Industries Transparency...
Development Aid and Portfolio Funds
Emmanuel Frot et Javier Santiso
01 Dec 2008
This paper presents stylised facts about development aid and capital flows to developing countries. It compares their volumes and volatilities and finds that foreign aid is not the major source of finance for these countries any more, though not for...
Who Saw Sovereign Debt Crises Coming?
Sebastián Nieto Parra
01 Nov 2008
This paper studies sovereign debt crises during the period 1993-2006 through the prism of the primary sovereign bond market. Two conclusions emerge. First, investment banks price sovereign default risk well before crises occur and before investors...
Aid Volatility and Macro Risks in Low-Income Countries
Eduardo Borensztein, Julia Cagé, Daniel Cohen et Cécile Valadier
01 Nov 2008
The report argues that aid volatility is an important source of volatility for the poorest countries. Following a method already applied by the Agence Française de Développement, the report argues that loans to LICs should incorporate a floating...