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Kelbesa Megersa
Researcher at University of Antwerp
Publications - 29
Citations - 108
Kelbesa Megersa is an academic researcher from University of Antwerp. The author has contributed to research in topics: Debt-to-GDP ratio & Debt. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 23 publications receiving 85 citations. Previous affiliations of Kelbesa Megersa include Université de Namur.
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Public debt, economic growth, and public sector management in developing countries : is there a link?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether differences in public sector management quality affect the link between public debt and economic growth in developing countries using the World Bank's institutional indices of public sector Management (PSM).
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The laffer curve and the debt-growth link in low-income Sub-Saharan African economies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of non-linearity in the long-term relationship between public debt and economic growth, and present evidence of a bell-shaped relationship between economic growth and total public debt in a panel of low-income Sub-Saharan countries.
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The Productivity Gaps of Female-Owned Firms: Evidence from Ethiopian Census Data
TL;DR: This paper provided new empirical evidence on the relative productivity disadvantage of female-owned firms compared with male-owned ones in a developing country setting, and they relied on a large number of large-scale data sets.
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Assessing Indicators of Currency Crisis in Ethiopia: Signals Approach
Kelbesa Megersa,Danny Cassimon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the signals approach developed by Kaminsky et al. (1998) and assessed currency crisis in Ethiopia over the time frame January 1970 to December 2008.
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Real governance in the DRC (2003-2016): between reforms and white elephants
Stefaan Marysse,Kelbesa Megersa +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore if claims of "good" (improving) economic governance are factual in DRC, particularly over the 2003-2016 period, and analyze the role of institutional reforms for gains in economic governance and how this compares to failures in basic functions of the state.