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Structural Policies for Shock-Prone Developing Countries.
- Abstract:
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Many developing countries periodically face large adverse shocks to their economies. We study two distinct types of such shocks - large declines in the price of a country’s commodity exports and severe natural disasters - , both of which have occurred frequently in the recent past. Unsurprisingly, adverse shocks reduce the short-term growth of constant-price GDP and we analyze which structural policies help to minimize these losses. Structural policies ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Department for International Development
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Oxford Economic Papers Journal website
- Volume:
- 61
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 703 - 726
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0030-7653
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:14671
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- © Oxford University Press 2009. All rights reserved.
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