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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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Effects of Public Investment in Infrastructure on Growth and Poverty in India
Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Counter factual policy simulations of sustained increase in public investment in infrastructure, financed through borrowing from commercial banks, shows substantial increase in private investment and thereby output in this sector. Further, due to increase in absorption, real private investment...
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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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The Service Sector as India’s Road to Economic Growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts...
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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Channels of Interprovincial Consumption Risk Sharing in the People’s Republic of China
Du, Julan; He, Qing; Rui, Oliver M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during 1980–2007. The analysis finds that 9.4% of shocks to gross provincial product are smoothed by the interprovincial fiscal transfer system. This system also cushions a...
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Channels of Interprovincial Consumption Risk Sharing in the People’s Republic of China
Du, Julan; He, Qing; Rui, Oliver M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during 1980–2007. The analysis finds that 9.4% of shocks to gross provincial product are smoothed by the interprovincial fiscal transfer system. This system also cushions a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651636
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From Access to Income : Regional and Ethnic Inequality in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This study investigates regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia from five dimensions : access to education and health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first comprehensive study that looks at ethnic inequality in...
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Growth and Poverty in Maharashtra
Mishra, Srijit; Panda, Manoj - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Maharashtra is among the richest states in India in terms of per capita income, yet incidence of poverty in the state remains close to the national average. The states economy grew at a faster rate than the all-India average during 1980-1 to 1992-3, but it slowed down a bit during 1993-4 to...
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