 | Perfect Storm: Climate Change and Tourism Author/Editor: Serhan Cevik, Manuk Ghazanchyan. Release Date:November, 2020 While the world’s attention is on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains a greater existential threat to vulnerable countries that are highly dependent on a weather-sensitive more...
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| The Lack of Convergence of Latin-America Compared with CESEE: Is Low Investment to Blame? Author/Editor: Bas B Bakker, Manuk Ghazanchyan, Alex Ho, Vibha Nanda. Release Date:June, 2020 In the last few decades there has been little convergence of income levels in Latin America with those in the United States, in sharp contrast with both emerging Asia and emerging Europe. This paper more...
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| New Insights into ECCU's Tourism Sector Competitiveness Author/Editor: Manuk Ghazanchyan, Li Zhao, Steve Brito, Vivian Parlak. Release Date:July, 2019 Tourism has become the main driver of economic growth and employment and the most important source of income in the ECCU. Preserving and, possibly, enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism more...
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| The Measurement and Macro-Relevance of Corruption: A Big Data Approach Author/Editor: Sandile Hlatshwayo, Anne Oeking, Manuk Ghazanchyan, David Corvino, Ananya Shukla, Lamin Y Leigh. Release Date:August, 2018 Corruption is macro-relevant for many countries, but is often hidden, making measurement of it—and its effects—inherently difficult. Existing indicators suffer from several weaknesses, including more...
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| Tax Incentives in Cambodia Author/Editor: Manuk Ghazanchyan, Alexander D Klemm, Yong Sarah Zhou. Release Date:March, 2018 Cambodia, like its regional peers, offers a number of tax incentives to investors. This paper reviews these incentives to assess their costs and benefits, including their likely effectiveness in more...
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| LAO P.D.R.: Assessing the Quality of Trade Statistics Author/Editor: Geoffrey J Bannister, Manuk Ghazanchyan, Theodore Pierre Bikoi. Release Date:November, 2017 This paper assesses external trade statistics in Lao PDR by looking at mirror statistics, and
with reference to international experience in compilation and dissemination of external trade
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| Collect More, Spend Better : Public Investment in Asian Frontier Markets Author/Editor: Manuk Ghazanchyan, Ricardo Marto, Jiri Jonas, Kaitlyn Douglass. Release Date:January, 2017 We use a dynamic small open economy model to explore the macroeconomic impact of
alternative public investment scaling-up scenarios, analyzing how improving the
efficiency of capital more...
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| A New Look at the Determinants of Growth in Asian Countries Author/Editor: Manuk Ghazanchyan, Janet Gale Stotsky, Qianqian Zhang. Release Date:September, 2015 This study examines the drivers of growth in Asian countries, with focus on the role of investment, the exchange rate regime, financial risk, and capital account openness. We use a panel data set of more...
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| Unraveling the Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Sri Lanka Author/Editor: Manuk Ghazanchyan. Release Date:October, 2014 In this paper we examine the channels through which innovations to policy variables— policy rates or monetary aggregates—affect such macroeconomic variables as output and inflation in Sri Lanka. more...
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| Drivers of Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries Author/Editor: Manuk Ghazanchyan, Janet Gale Stotsky. Release Date:November, 2013 This study examines the drivers of growth in Sub-Saharan African countries, using aggregate data, from the past decade. We correlate recent growth experience to key determinants of growth, including more...
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