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Identifying Aggregate Supply and Demand Shocks in South Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)This paper uses a structural VAR methodology to identify aggregate demand and supply shocks to real output for the South African economy. Demand shocks, in turn, are separated into fiscal and monetary shocks. The model is ... -
The Illusion of Sustainability
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-11)Rather than provide development assistance indefinitely, foreign aid donors increasingly seek to help communities sustainably provide local public goods themselves. We examine various strategies for sustainably fighting ... -
The Impact of a Rise in Expected Income on Child Labor: Evidence from Coca Production in Colombia
Can households' beliefs about future income shocks affect child labor? This paper examines whether the three-year gap between the announcement (in 2014) and the start (in 2017) of the Illicit Crop Substitution Program ... -
The Impact of G-3 Exchange Rate Volatility on Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-02)This paper describes G-3 exchange rate volatility and evaluates its impact on developing countries. The paper presents empirical evidence showing that G-3 exchange rate volatility has a robust and significantly negative ... -
The Impact of Intranational Trade Barriers on Exports: Evidence from a Nationwide VAT Rebate Reform in China
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-12)It is well known that various forms of non-tariff trade barriers exist within a country. Empirically, it is difficult to measure these barriers as they can take many forms. We take advantage of a nationwide VAT rebate ... -
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Human Development and Poverty at the Municipal Level in Mexico
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-01)This paper seeks to analyze the impact of natural hazards on human development and poverty at the municipal level in Mexico. We control for a set of geographical and natural location characteristics which make municipalities ... -
Impact of Patents on Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs in Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-05)This paper uses sales data on HIV/AIDS drugs in a sample of 34 low and middle income countries between 1995 and 1999 to assess empirically the impact of patents on unsubsidized access to a new drug therapy. There can be ... -
The Impact of the Crisis - Decline and Recovery
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-01)When the Asian financial crisis broke in mid-1997, the expectation was that Indonesia would weather the crisis with minimal damage. Actual events soon proved these expectations widely wrong and the Indonesian economy was ... -
The Impact of the Mexican Drug War on Trade
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-02)This paper studies the unintended economic consequences of increases in violence following the Mexican Drug War. We study the effects on exports in municipalities with different levels of exposure to violence after the ... -
The Impact of the World Food Price Crisis on Nutrition in China
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-08)World food prices have increased dramatically in recent years. We use panel data from 2006 to examine the impact of these increases on the consumption and nutrition of poor households in two Chinese provinces. We find that ... -
Implementando Politicas de Desarrollo Productivo En Chiapas: Marco Institucional
(Center for International Development, 2015)Este documento propone un nuevo marco institucional para la implementación de políticas de desarrollo productivo (PDP) en Chiapas, con el objetivo de impulsar un cambio estructural de la economía chiapaneca en búsqueda de ... -
The Implications of Dark Matter for Assessing the US External Imbalance
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-11)This paper clarifies how dark matter changes our assessment of the US external imbalance. Dark matter assets are defined as the capitalized value of the return privilege obtained by US assets. Because this return privilege ... -
Implied Comparative Advantage
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-07)The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a stance on how comparative advantages in different industries or locations are related ... -
In Quest of the Political: The Political Economy of Development Policy Making
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-06)This paper explores some of the central debates in the application of political economy to development policy making. It is particularly concerned with the connection between theory, empirical observation, and the practice ... -
In search of the chains that hold Brazil back
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-09)This paper performs a Growth Diagnostic for Brazil. It shows that many aspects of the Brazilian economy have been improving including the macro picture, educational progress and the external front. Moreover, Brazil has ... -
Incentives to Learn
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-10)We report results from a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program for adolescent girls in Kenya. Girls who scored well on academic exams had their school fees paid and received a cash grant for school supplies. ... -
Incentivising Pro-Labour Reforms
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-03)This paper shows that countries may reduce labour repression if they perceive this as conducive to export growth. This paper traces what happened before, in the presence of, and then following the withdrawal of international ... -
Income Changes after Inter-city Migration
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-10)Using panel data for workers who change jobs, changes in several labor outcomes after inter-city migration are estimated by comparing workers in similar circumstances who move to a new city –the treatment group—with those ... -
Incomplete Contingent Labor Contract, Asymmetric Residual Rights and Authority, and the Theory of the Firm
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-05)In the paper the trade-offs among endogenous transaction costs caused by two-sided moral hazard, exogenous monitoring cost, and economies of specialization are specified in a Grossman, Hart and Moore (GHM) model to absorb ... -
India's Decade of Development
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-05)We believe that India has a chance for a tremendous breakthrough in economic development during the current decade. India’s political system is more than ever in consensus about the basic direction of reforms. The current ...