Adjustment in Oil-Importing Developing Countries

Adjustment in Oil-Importing Developing Countries
Author: Pradeep Mitra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1994-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521443166

Analyses the impact of the oil price rises in the 1970s and 1980s on developing countries.

The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation

The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation
Author: Mr. Kangni R Kpodar
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1616356154

This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest income quintiles with the view to assess the distributional impact of the pass-through. To undertake this analysis, the paper provides an update to the Global Monthly Retail Fuel Price Database, expanding the product coverage to premium and regular fuels, the time dimension to December 2020, and the sample to 190 countries. Three key findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad-based in developing economies than in advanced economies. Second, we show that past studies using crude oil prices instead of retail fuel prices to estimate the pass-through to inflation significantly underestimate it. Third, while the purchasing power of all households declines as fuel prices increase, the distributional impact is progressive. But the progressivity phases out within 6 months after the shock in advanced economies, whereas it persists beyond a year in developing countries.

Structural Adjustment and Intersectoral Shifts in Tanzania

Structural Adjustment and Intersectoral Shifts in Tanzania
Author: Peter Wobst
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0896291200

Examines structural adjustment and stabilization policies in Tanzania from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Formulates a model to analyse the effects of these policies on overall economic growth, sectoral performance, welfare and income distribution. Highlights the policy bias against agriculture, exchange rate devaluation and the behaviour of commodity markets. Includes a review of the transition to a free market economy since independence in 1961.

The Global Justice Reader

The Global Justice Reader
Author: Thom Brooks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2023-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1119911524

A unique compendium of foundational and contemporary writings in global justice, newly revised and expanded The Global Justice Reader is the first resource of its kind to focus exclusively on this important topic in moral and political philosophy, providing an expertly curated selection of both classic and contemporary work in one comprehensive volume. Purpose-built for course work, this collection brings together the best in the field to help students appreciate the philosophical dimensions of critical global issues and chart the development of diverse concepts of justice and morality. Newly revised and expanded, the Reader presents key writings of the most influential writers on global justice, including Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Peter Singer. Thirty-nine chapters across eleven thematically organized sections explore sovereignty, rights to self-determination, human rights, nationalism and patriotism, cosmopolitanism, global poverty, women and global justice, climate change, and more. Features seminal works from the moral and political philosophers of the past as well as important writings from leading contemporary thinkers Explores critical topics in current discourses surrounding immigration and citizenship, global poverty, just war, terrorism, and international environmental justice Highlights the need for shared philosophical resources to help address global problems Includes a brief introduction in each section setting out the issues of concern to global justice theorists Contains complete references in each chapter and a fully up-to-date, extended bibliography to supplement further readings The revised edition of The Global Justice Reader remains an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in global justice and human rights, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, environmental justice, and social justice and citizenship, and an excellent supplement for general courses in political philosophy, political science, social science, and law.

Creative Insecurity

Creative Insecurity
Author: Dania Thafer
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2023-06-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1805261134

The Middle East is experiencing the world’s most prominent youth bulge. Yet many MENA economies’ institutional designs, both formal and informal, favour the power of business elites, systematically discriminating against young people joining the workforce or opening businesses, and thus limiting their ability to contribute to innovation. Large youth populations can be a boon or a curse: nurtured and integrated, they can jumpstart stratospheric growth; but if alienated and confined, they can drain a society politically and economically. The Gulf Cooperation Council countries are no exception to this perilous dilemma. This book explores the problem through a new concept, ‘creative insecurity’: a state’s subjection to an institutional ecosystem that is suppressing opportunities for innovation—to the extent that it is causing economic and political vulnerabilities, which in turn threaten national security. Creative insecurity threatens the longevity of many states today. In this original, incisive study, Dania Thafer argues that GCC member-states should make it a national security imperative to cash in their demographic dividend, by averting the deleterious effects of ill-disposed elite politics. Investing in an innovation ecosystem that harnesses the talent of the youth majority will be crucial for the GCC’s successful transition to the post-oil era.

Gender Aspects of the Trade and Poverty Nexus

Gender Aspects of the Trade and Poverty Nexus
Author: Maurizio Bussolo
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0821377639

Trade liberalization can create economic opportunities for poor people. But are these opportunities available to men and women equally? Do the gender disparities in access to education, health, credit, and other resources limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor women? This volume introduces the gender dimension into empirical analyses of the links between trade and poverty, which can improve policy making. The collection of chapters in this book is close to an ideal macro-micro evaluation technique that explicitly assesses the importance of gender in determining the poverty effects of trade shocks. Part I, relying on ex ante simulation approaches, focuses on the macroeconomic links between trade and gender, where labor market structure and its functioning play a key role. Part II concentrates on micro models of households and attempts to identify the ex post effects of trade shocks on household income levels and consumption choices. It also addresses questions about possible changes in inequality within households due to improved economic opportunities for women. 'Gender Aspects of the Trade and Poverty Nexus' will be invaluable to policy makers, development practitioners and researchers, journalists, and students.

Where is Oil in National Reforms

Where is Oil in National Reforms
Author: Parag Diwan
Publisher: Excel Books India
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008
Genre: Petroleum industry and trade
ISBN: 9788174466563

. This book has been designed in terms of the core analytical framework of two taxonomy tables: a) Taxonomy of Economic Reforms, and b) Taxonomy of Oil Sector Reforms. These two tables present structures, business segment and significant economic activities of the 'economy' and the 'oil sector', respectively. The impact of oil sector reforms on other segments of the economy has been analyzed in terms of macro-economic parameters. How closely reforms in oil sector and those in national economy have moved and interacted with each other have been analyzed and conclusions have moved and interacted with each other have been analyzed and conclusions have been drawn from the different perspectives of policy-making and their impact. This book comes out with significant findings, which inter alia will be useful in designing national level policy and corporate strategy. The method adopted in this study is what applicable for a sectoral strategy (i.e., for oil sector), within the emerging market condition (from monopolistic market gravitating towards competitive market), under an overall policy regime (transformation of a public sector domination to private participation, under democratic framework). The strategy for oil sector has been examined and formulated at national level (macro) and at enterprise (micro) level. Further, industry level issues like demand, supply and pricing have been dealt, along with social objectives which have been identified in terms of macro economic indicators like inflation, balance of payment deficit, energy insecurity, import dependence and fiscal deficit. These problems have been analysed and solutions have been attempted through multipronged approaches.