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Trade policy review: Viet Nam 2013

World Trade Organization - 2014

“Trade Policy Reviews” analyse the trade policies and practices of each member of the WTO. The reviews consist of three parts: an independent report by the WTO Secretariat, a report by the government, and the concluding remarks by the Chair of the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Body. The...

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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …

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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023

We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...

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Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry : evidence from China

Cui, Chuantao; Li, Leona Shao-Zhi - In: Journal of development economics 163 (2023), pp. 1-15

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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy

Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...

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Cream-skimmer or underdog? : labor type selectivity, pre-program wage, and rural labor training program outcome

Chen, Yiu Por - 2009

The mismatch between laborer's abilities and the target subject of the training program is one of the most primary concerns for a labor training program. The ability of different workers may significantly affect the outcomes of a labor training program. The objective of this paper is to look at...

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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities : the role of employment quota

Prakash, Nishith - 2009

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...

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Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of implementation of the...

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Welfare implications of India's employment guarantee programme with a wage payment delay

Basu, Parantap; Sen, Kunal - 2015

We examine the efficacy of a popular anti-poverty programme, namely the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could adversely affect the welfare of the poor through two...

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Local funds and political competition : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Gupta, Bhanu; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2014

This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data on funds sanctioned and election results from three...

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