The elusive quest for growth: economists' adventures and misadventures in the tropics

By G. Masiero. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries (2011, background): “Soon after the Asian crisis, a debate also started in the development economics literature on the merits and demerits of aid (official development assistance), with a similar focus on the inadequacies in international aid architecture (see e.g. Easterly, 2001; 2006; Sachs, 2005).”
Externalities and Growth (2004, neutral): “3 An exception is Easterly (2001b).”
The Washington Consensus as transnational policy paradigm: Its origins, trajectory and likely successor (2013, background): “Many Sub-Saharan African governments became famous for entering into lending agreements, receiving initial disbursements, failing to comply and then entering into new loans all over again, eventually leading the IFIs to ‘lend into arrears’ (Easterly, 2001 , 2006 ).”
The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development (2007, neutral): “Past experiences investing in less developed countries that lack these institutional features suggest that schooling is not necessarily itself a sufficient engine of growth (e.g., Easterly (2002); Pritchett (2001)).”
Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries (2006, background): “(1999)], orphan status [Case, Paxson and Ableidinger (2003), Evans and Miguel (2004)], or early childhood nutritional status [Glewwe (2005)].”
Economic growth in developing countries: The role of human capital (2013, neutral): “Other topics of considerable current interest enter into the debates: should 1 See, for example, Easterly (2001) or Pritchett (2006).”
Computers and the Promise of Development: Aspiration, Neoliberalism and 'Technolity' in India's ICTD enterprise (2008, background): “While this may offer little shock to scholars looking at empirical evidence of outcomes with the continued propensity of international agencies to fund development projects (Easterly 2001), the rage of expectation from ICTD still stands out as somewhat spectacular.”
Trade openness and economic growth : a cross-country empirical investigation (2008, background): “This index shows the probability that two randomly selected persons of a given country will belong to the same ethnolinguistic group and has become a standard variable in the cross-country growth literature since the important studies by Mauro (1995) and Easterly and Levine (1997). Before carrying o”
Appropriate growth policy: a unifying framework (2006, background): “…than Europe since the mid-1990s, given that the average European saving rate over the past decade has been higher than the US rate, and more importantly given that the average European capital-labor ratio has remained higher than the US ratio and has not noticeably decreased over that period.”
The International Monetary Fund: A review of the recent evidence (2008, background): “On the other, it is accused of imposing uniform policy reforms that do not correspond to local conditions and promoting the interests of investors and powerful developed countries rather than of borrowers (e.g., Meltzer 2000, Easterly 2001, and Stiglitz 2002).”
Emission abatement versus development as strategies to reduce vulnerability to climate change: an application of FUND (2005, background): “Easterly (2002), among many others, makes it clear that this specification is simplistic, without offering a more realistic, generic relationship between aid and development.”
Investment Needs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Understanding the Billions and Trillions (2015, background): “Needs assessments neglect economic growth: It is sometimes argued that needs assessments miss the most important development priority, which is to sustain economic growth (Easterly 2001, 2005, 2006a and 2006b).”
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement (2010, neutral): “attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions (Easterly (2001)).”