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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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Convergence and Inequality : the case of Western Balkan countries.

OUARDIGHI, JALAL EL; KAPETANOVIC, RABIJA SOMUN- - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2007

This paper analyses the convergence process of inequality in income among five Balkan countries in the 1989-2005 period … approach is to consider the convergence of country contributions to the international income inequality. The model allows … simultaneously to test the convergence process of income and inequality. The results indicate a real convergence process between …

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Bangladesh Economy in Financial Year 2007-8

East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER); … - 2012

Both FY2007 and the ongoing FY2008 will go down as exceptional years in the history of Bangladesh. Fiscal year 2008 started its journey in the backdrop of the moderately high growth rate of 6.51 per cent achieved in FY2007. Experience of FY2007 was unique in the sense that it saw three...

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Bangladesh Economy in Financial Year 2007-8

East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER); … - 2012

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Asia's Underachiever : Deep Constraints in Philippine Economic Growth

Briones, Roehlano M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

Numerous studies have tried to explain the poor growth performance of the Philippines. This paper critically reviews related literature on constraints to long-run growth, as it applies to the Philippines. We evaluate several factors, namely : culture; corruption; and institutions. The last offers...

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The Effect of Financial Repression & Enforcement on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Antunes, Antonio; Cavalcanti, Tiago; Villamil, Anne - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper studies the effect of financial repression and contract enforcement on en-trepreneurship and economic development. We construct and solve a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents, occupational choice and two financial frictions : intermediation costs and financial...

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Health Effects of Job Insecurity among Employees in Swiss General Population

DOMENIGHETTI, Gianfranco; D'AVANZO, Barbara; BISIG, Brigitte - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 1999

Objectives. To investigate at national level the association between health and the social distress in which the whole employed population is plunged as a consequence of job insecurity. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. Switzerland. Subjects. Individuals working full or part time as...

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Health Effects of Stress and Insecurity among Employees in the Banking Sector - Comparison with Employees in other Sectors

Domenighetti, Gianfranco; Quaglia, Jacqueline; … - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2004

This study measures, on a representative sample of employees in the banking sector (N=428), the prevalence of 18 work condition factors which may have an influence on the levels of stress and insecurity. The analysis then points out the relationship between these two latter factors and 16 health...

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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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How Low-Carbon Green Growth Can Reduce Inequalities

Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Bauer, Armin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013

ï»¿Half of the worldâ€™s populationâ€”3 billion peopleâ€”lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great potential among low-income households for green consumption, production,...

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