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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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The Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) : Mechanism and Uses

Usman, Syaikhu; Mawardi, M. Sulton; Poesoro, Adri; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

This study aims to analyze the management of the Specific Allocation Fund (DAK). The three largest DAK-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts. This paper was compiled based on the results of in-depth...

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Fiscal Policy Coordination in Asia : East Asian Infrastructure Investment Fund

Abidin, Mahani Zainal - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

East Asian countries were seriously affected by the 2008 global crisis through a steep fall in exports. This experience exposed the vulnerability of the East Asian growth model and emphasized the importance of generating regional growth by expanding domestic demand and enlarging intra-regional...

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Convergence in nutrient intakes and examination of nutrition-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa: Implications on Health and welfare

Ogundari, Kolawole - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

The objective of the study is twofold: first, to investigate whether a nutrition convergence process exists in sub … covering 1975-2009 cum balanced panel of 1505 observations was employed for the analysis. The convergence hypothesis is … Curve. However, the empirical results show that the null hypothesis of no nutrition convergence is strongly rejected, which …

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Government Ideology in Donor and Recipient Countries: Does Political Proximity Matter for the Effectiveness of Aid?

Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...

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The finance-growth nexus revisited: From origins to a modern theoretical landscape

Stolbov, Mikhail - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The paper is a survey of theoretical and empirical approaches applied to analyze the impact of financial system on economic growth. The key issues of the modern theories of the finance-growth nexus are discussed and the theories are classified on the basis of the methodology they rely on. The...

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Equity market liberalization, credit constraints and income inequality

Sun, Puyang; Sen, Somnath; Jin, Shujing - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper provides compelling evidence that equity market liberalization, the most efficient way to smooth financial market frictions such as credit constraints, can alleviate persistent cross-dynastic income inequality through increasing the accumulation of human capital. We examine the impact...

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Emergence of China and India in the New Millennium : Will it Facilitate Market Access for LDCs and Developing Countries?

Mohanty, S. K.; Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

China and India have emerged as highly dynamic economies in recent years. In the Asian region their growth and economic expansion has generated its own complementarities. The paper has empirically shown that surge in the exports of these two countries have significantly contributed to their...

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The Pattern of Growth in Indonesia after the Economic Crisis 1997/1998 : Does the Primary Sector Still Need to Support Economic Growth?

Hirawan, Fajar Bambang; Cesaratto, Sergio - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

This paper aims to examine the pattern of growth in Indonesia, especially after the economic crisis 1997/1998. Indonesia suffered a catastrophic economic crisis from the year 1997 until 1999 and the economy improved from the year 2000 even though it was still dependant on the non-economic...

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Growth Diagnostics in Pakistan

Qayyum, Abdul; Khawaja, Idrees; Hyder, Asma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, we attempt to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. We argue that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the heart of the matter : corruption is rampant, judicial independence is low, educational institutions do not...

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