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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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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India???s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Lagrange, Arthur Alik; Ravallion, Martin - 2013

Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have relied solely on household...

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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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Global Growth and Distribution : Are China and India Reshaping the World?

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Over the past 20 years, aggregate measures of global inequality have changed little even if significant structural changes have been observed. High growth rates of China and India lifted millions out of poverty, while the stagnation in many African countries caused them to fall behind. Using the...

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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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Estimating Global Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Projects : Applications in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam

Iimi, Atsushi - 2012

. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …

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Report for the year ... on the trade and commerce of Chungking ; 1908

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Report for the year ... on the trade and commerce of the Monthons of Saiburi and Puket ; 1908

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