Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States

By William R. Easterly, Aart C. Kraay. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Macroeconomic Implications of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean (2004, neutral): “…to natural disasters than with inadequate mechanisms for consumption smoothing, in particular a relatively limited use of insurance (Auffret, 2003a, 2003b); the absence of countercyclical fiscal policy (World Bank, 2003); and generally high volatility in small states (Easterly and Kraay, 2000).”
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook (2002, background): “This also receives empirical support from Rodrik (1998) and Easterly and Kraay (2000).”
How Fast Are the Tourism Countries Growing? The Cross-country Evidence (2003, positive): “Following Easterly and Kraay (2000) (E-K from now on), we define small countries as countries with an average population of”
An Economic Vulnerability Index: Its Design and Use for International Development Policy (2009, background): “…used, the (log of) population size is a significant positive factor of growth (Guillaumont and Guillaumont 1988; Guillaumont and Chauvet 2001; Bosworth and Collins 2003; Millner and Weyman-Jones 2003; Alesina and Spolaore 2004) and a negative factor of export instability (Easterly and Kraay 2000).”
How Fast are Small Tourism Countries Growing? Evidence from the Data for 1980–2003 (2007, positive): “We first assess whether it is possible to detect significant advantages or disadvantages for SCs and STCs by adopting the full set of continental and geographical dummies used in Easterly (2001) and Easterly and Kraay (2000)6 as well as dummies for Oil, OECD and LDC countries.”
International Institutions and the Volatility of International Trade (2008, neutral): “…Kim 2005; and Milner and Kubota 2005; but also see Özden and Reinhardt 2005a; and Goldstein, Rivers, and Tomz 2007+ 3+ See, for example, Rodrik 1998; and Easterly and Kraay 2000+ Our argument is not that openness itself increases volatility+ Rather, we simply observe that openness increases the…”
Does Decentralization Serve the Poor (2002, background): “However, controlling for rich countries (OECD and oil exporting countries) Easterly and Kraay (2000) find for a sample of 153 countries, that poverty and welfare indicators are significantly better in small countries (below one million people).”
Does tourism influence economic growth? A dynamic panel data approach (2008, background): “On the contrary, the tourism sector is thought not to be a technologically intensive one and countries specialized in tourism are in general small countries (see for instance, Lanza and Pigliaru, 1999; Easterly and Kraay, 2000).”
Watching more than the Discovery channel : export cycles and diversification in development (2007, background): “Moreover, volatility in income terms of trade has depressed long-term growth (Lutz and Singer 1994; Easterly and Kraay, 2000).”