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A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique - 2012
. The paper illustrates the decomposition using data for Morocco and Vietnam, and the results offer some surprising insights …
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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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Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam
Dollar, David - 2013
Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain … this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization …. Relating these changes to the empirical growth literature, the author finds that Vietnam's growth acceleration is about what …
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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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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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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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Global Growth and Distribution : Are China and India Reshaping the World?
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
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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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....
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Fungibility and the Impact of Development Assistance : Evidence from Vietnam's Health Sector
Wagstaff, Adam - 2012
Vietnam's provinces. Aid is not apparently fungible between Vietnam's health sector and other sectors, but is fungible across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552243