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International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper assembles findings on the use of trade taxes, examines the main contributing factors, and reviews the fiscal aspects of trade policy as they relate to both efficiency and macroeconomic stabilization. It demonstrates why trade taxes would generally not be part of an optimal tax...

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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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Proximity and horizontal policies : the backbone of export diversification and complexity

Salinas, Gonzalo - 2021

The lack of a clear link between general economic fundamentals and export diversification indicators in the literature has fueled the believe that industrial policies are an absolute requisite to diversify exports. This paper, however, does find a strong statistical connection between horizontal...

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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 Reforms of Uncertain Duration and Real Uncertainty : A First Approximation

Calvo, Guillermo - 1994

This paper examines trade reforms of uncertain duration undertaken in economies subject to real foreign and domestic shocks. These reforms induce consumption and import booms regardless of whether they succeed or fail and of the degree of intertemporal elasticity of substitution. If tariff...

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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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Social programs and formal employment : evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program

Fruttero, Anna; Leichsenring, Alexandre Ribeiro; Paiva, … - 2020

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...

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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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Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? : The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2007

We criticize existing empirical results on the detrimental effects of natural resource dependence on the rate of economic growth after controlling for institutional quality, openness, and initial income. These results do not survive once we use instrumental variables techniques to correct for...

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Trade, Growth, and Poverty : A Selective Survey

Berg, Andrew - 2003

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution for a given growth rate. Evidence from a variety of...

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