O54 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O54

Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean

Economic Growth and Inequality: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America

We investigate in this paper whether income growth has played any r...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the m...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Determinants of Government and External Debt: Evidence from the Young Democracies of So...

We investigate in this paper what are the main determinants of gove...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Young Democracies and Government Size: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper the hypothesis that when democracies a...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter Right?

In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or ...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Democracy, Populism and Hyperinflation(s): Some Evidence from Latin America

We test for the populist view of inflation in Latin America between...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Macroeconomic performance and inequality: Brazil 1983-1994

We examine how poor macroeconomic performance, mainly in the role o...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Exchange rate pass-through to import prices in South Africa: Is there asymmetry?

We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequali...

Nicolette Cattaneo, T. D. Karoro, Meshach J. Aziakpono

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Exchange rate pass-through to import prices in South Africa: Is there asymmetry?

This paper examines the magnitude and speed of exchange rate pass-t...

Meshach J. Aziakpono, Nicolette Cattaneo, T. D. Karoro

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Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from Brazil

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Braz...

Manoel Bittencourt

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