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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559662
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Constraints to Growth and Job Creation in Low-Income Commonwealth of Independent States Countries
Verme, Paolo - 2012
Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless growth." The author addresses the causes of this...
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Finance, Financial Sector Policies, and Long-Run Growth
Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2012
The first part of this paper reviews the literature on the relation between finance and growth. The second part of the paper reviews the literature on the historical and policy determinants of financial development. Governments play a central role in shaping the operation of financial systems...
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The Impact of Regulation on Growth and Informality : Cross-Country Evidence
Loayza, Norman V.; Ov??edo, Ana Maria; Serv??n, Luis - 2012
The authors study the effects of regulation on economic growth and the relative size of the informal sector in a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Along with firm dynamics, informality is an important channel through which regulation affects macroeconomic performance and...
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Exploring the Growth Effects of COVID-19 across Developing Countries
Calderon, Cesar; Kubota, Megumi - 2021
This paper investigates the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on economic growth across developing countries. It documents the evolution and co-movement of COVID-19 infections with government responses (including health containment measures) across developing countries. It then...
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Impact of third-party contract enforcement in agricultural markets : a field experiment in Vietnam
Sänger, Christoph; Torero, Máximo; Qaim, Matin - In: American journal of agricultural economics 96 (2014) 4, pp. 1220-1238
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How "Natural" are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies
Nauges, C??line; Berg, Caroline H. van den - 2012
economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … customer density in Moldova and Vietnam. The results of this study show that the cost structure of the water and wastewater …
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Health Insurance Impacts on Health and Nonmedical Consumption in a Developing Country
Wagstaff, Adam; Pradhan, Menno - 2012
The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554022
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Rejecting new technology : the case of genetically modified wheat
Berwald, Derek; Carter, Colin Andre; Gruère, Guillaume P. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 88 (2006) 2, pp. 432-447
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