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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi
Wagstaff, Adam; Nguyen, Nga Nguyet - 2013
By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …
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Trade, Foreign Exchange, and Energy Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran : Reform Agenda, Economic Implications, and Impact on the Poor
Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - 2013
The Islamic Republic of Iran has committed itself to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five-Year Development Plan. It started out with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual exchange rate regime with the market rate more than four times the official rate, and domestic energy...
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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - 2013
This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...
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Trade, Regulations, and Growth
Bolaky, Bineswaree; Freund, Caroline - 2013
Trade does not stimulate growth in economies with excessive business and labor regulations. The authors examine the effect of openness on growth using cross-country regressions in both levels and changes. Results from the levels regressions imply that increased openness is associated with a...
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Assessing the Redistributive Effect of Fiscal Policy
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012
Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...
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Foreign aid, terrorism and growth : conditional evidence from quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
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A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Niger
Pinto Moreira, Emmanuel; Bayraktar, Nihal - 2012
The authors apply the dynamic macroeconomic framework developed by Ag??nor, Bayraktar, and El Aynaoui (2004) to Niger. As in the original model, linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health), and growth are explicitly captured....
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Trade and FDI thresholds of CO2 emissions for a green economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
beneficial in promoting a green economy for the first and second sample, respectively. Fourth, FDI is beneficial for the green … economy below critical masses of 28.571 of Net FDI inflows (% of GDP) and 33.333 of net FDI inflows (% of GDP) for first and … promoting the green economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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On the determinant of financial development in Africa : geography, institutions and macroeconomic policy relevance
Adekunle, Ibrahim A.; Yinusa, Olumuyiwa Ganiyu; … - 2021
While it is clear that financial depth and economic diversity are prerequisites for the realisation of growth and development objectives, heterogeneous factors that determines financial development remains imperfectly understood. This ambiguity in the structural relations between varied...
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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa
Bayly, C. A. - 2012
This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and...
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