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[Rezension von: The Mexican economy, 1870 - 1930, essays on the economic history of institutions, revolution, and growth, ed. by Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber]
Negrin, Jose-Luis - In: Journal of economic literature 41 (2003) 4, pp. 1315-1316
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001992022
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559592
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559529
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560147
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Capital account liberalization : theory, evidence, and speculation
Henry, Peter Blair - In: Journal of economic literature 45 (2007) 4, pp. 887-935
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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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[Rezension von: Job creation and poverty reduction in India, towards rapid and sustained growth, The World Bank. Ed. by Sadiq Ahmed]
Senses, Mine Zeynep - In: Journal of economic literature 47 (2009) 2, pp. 529-530
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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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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553976
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[Rezension von: Irwin, Douglas A., Peddling protectionism, Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression]
Crucini, Mario J. - In: Journal of economic literature 49 (2011) 4, pp. 1297-1299
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