 | Financial Deepening, Terms of Trade Shocks, and Growth Volatility in Low-Income Countries Author/Editor: Kangni R Kpodar, Maelan Le Goff, Raju J Singh. Release Date:March, 2019 This paper contributes to the literature by looking at the possible relevance of the structure of the financial system—whether financial intermediation is performed through banks or markets—for more...
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| Export Competitiveness - Fuel Price Nexus in Developing Countries: Real or False Concern? Author/Editor: Kangni R Kpodar, Stefania Fabrizio, Kodjovi M Eklou. Release Date:February, 2019 This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing countries over the period 2000-2014. Using a fixed-effect estimator and the local more...
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| Does an Inclusive Citizenship Law Promote Economic Development? Author/Editor: Patrick A Imam, Kangni R Kpodar. Release Date:January, 2019 This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting the main features of jus soli, jus more...
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| Dynamic Fuel Price Pass-Through : Evidence from a New Global Retail Fuel Price Database Author/Editor: Kangni R Kpodar, Chadi Abdallah. Release Date:December, 2016 This paper assesses the dynamic pass-through of crude oil price shocks to retail fuel prices using a novel database on monthly retail fuel prices for 162 countries. The impulse response functions more...
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 | A New Tool for Distributional Incidence Analysis : An Application to Fuel Subsidy Reform Author/Editor: Stefania Fabrizio, Alexei Goumilevski, Kangni R Kpodar. Release Date:October, 2016 Increased focus on income inequality and distributional issues has made incidence analysis a crucial input into policy decisions. This note presents the theoretical framework used to conduct more...
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| Does A Regional Trade Agreement Lessen or Exacerbate Growth Volatility? An Empirical Investigation Author/Editor: Kangni Kpodar, Patrick A. Imam. Release Date:July, 2015 This paper assesses how regional trade agreements (RTAs) impact growth volatility on aworldwide sample of 170 countries with data spanning the period 1978-2012.Notwithstanding concerns that trade more...
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| Is Islamic Banking Good for Growth? Author/Editor: Patrick A. Imam, Kangni Kpodar. Release Date:April, 2015 The rapid growth of Islamic banking has attracted much attention lately in the economic literature. At the same time, a mature body of the literature has shown that financial development is broadly more...
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| Women, Work, and the Economy : Macroeconomic Gains from Gender Equity Author/Editor: Katrin Elborgh-Woytek, Monique Newiak, Kalpana Kochhar, Stefania Fabrizio, Kangni R Kpodar, Philippe Wingender, Benedict J Clements, Gerd Schwartz. Release Date:December, 2013 The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of women’s participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women from developing their full economic potential. more...
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| Do Remittances Reduce Aid Dependency? Author/Editor: Maelan Le Goff, Kangni Kpodar. Release Date:October, 2011 Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper more...
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| ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries Author/Editor: Kangni Kpodar, Mihasonirina Andrianaivo. Release Date:April, 2011 This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, we more...
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