Documentos e informes

Taxation, Accountability, and Cash Transfers : Breaking the Resource Curse (Inglés)

Why is governance in resource-rich countries so poor? This paper argues that it is because governments in these countries do not rely on taxation, which is an important instrument for citizens to hold...

Economic Incentives and Mitigating Negative Impacts (Árabe)

Frame Conditions and Government Petroleum Institutions (Árabe)

Revenue Management and Sustainable Benefits (Inglés)

Economic Incentives and Mitigating Negative Impacts (Inglés)

Frame Conditions and Government Petroleum Institutions (Inglés)

Revenue Management and Sustainable Benefits (Árabe)

Major Ingredients of Success in Petroleum Extraction (Inglés)

Sudden Influxes of Resource Wealth to the Economy : Avoiding "Dutch Disease" (Inglés)

Dutch Disease is a condition in which a sudden increase of resource wealth from an extractive sector (such as oil, gas, coal, or mining) undermines other areas of the economy (such as agriculture, manufacturing...

Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : What Are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences? (Inglés)

Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries...

Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa (Inglés)

This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing...

Oil discovery and macroeconomic management : the recent Ghanaian experience (Inglés)

This paper analyses the evolution of fiscal and monetary variables in Ghana, from the discovery of oil in 2007 through to 2014. It documents the deterioration of fiscal and monetary discipline over this...

Investigating the transmission channels behind Dutch disease effects: lessons from Mongolia using a CGE model (Inglés)

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model -- Maquette for Millennium Development Goal Simulations (MAMS) -- calibrated to Mongolia to investigate how the development of major mining projects...

Evidence for a presource curse ? oil discoveries, elevated expectations, and growth disappointments (Inglés)

Oil discoveries can constitute a major positive and exogenous shock to economic activity, but the resource curse hypothesis would suggest they might also be detrimental to growth over the long run. This...

Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid (Inglés)

Seminal arguments in political economy hold that citizens will more readily demand accountability from governments for taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large...

Exchange rate flexibility and the effect of remittances on economic growth (Inglés)

This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in recipient countries. The paper utilizes a comprehensive data set that comprises annual...

Optimal allocation of natural resource surpluses in a dynamic macroeconomic framework : a DSGE analysis with evidence from Uganda (Inglés)

In low-income, capital-scarce economies that face financial and fiscal constraints, managing revenues from newly found natural resources can be a daunting challenge. The policy debate is how to scale up...

Managing (fiscally) resource price volatility : exploring policy options for the Democratic Republic of Congo (Inglés)

How should resource-dependent countries respond (fiscally) to resource price volatility? This paper studies what determines revenue allocation between a "spend today" strategy and a "save now-spend tomorrow"...

From evidence to policy - Supporting Nepal’s trade integration strategy : policy note 1 (Inglés)

Nepal's trade balance in goods and services has been in deficit for many years. The large deficit has not resulted in a substantial accumulation of net foreign liabilities, as it has been largely financed...

The political economy of direct dividend transfers in resource-rich countries : a theoretical consideration (Inglés)

The acceleration of natural resource discoveries across many parts of the developing world has highlighted the urgent need for solutions to the mismanagement of windfalls that has blighted many countries...