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Vietnam's Labor Market Institutions, Regulations, and Interventions : Helping People Grasp Work Opportunities in a Risky World
Schmillen, Achim D. - 2016
Over the past 30 years, Vietnam has experienced significant shifts of employment away from agriculture toward … employers. As a part of all of these measures, Vietnam will also have to renew its efforts to integrate vulnerable groups into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246389
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Vietnam Development Report 2019 : Connecting Vietnam for Growth and Shared Prosperity
World Bank Group - 2019
Globally, Vietnam is among the most open economies with a trade-to-GDP ratio of 190 percent in 2018. Through the … has made remarkable achievements in trade liberalization. Vietnam's major trade partners located in East Asia, North … relations and connectivity initiatives are relevant to Vietnam, including with Southeast Asian neighbors, and South Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646759
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
Mc Millan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246181
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Reforming Non-Tariff Measures : From Evidence to Policy Advice
Cadot, Olivier - 2018
High levels of trade costs persist in the world trading system, despite recent progress in tariff reduction, trade facilitation, and logistics. At least some of these costs can be attributed to non-tariff measures (NTMs), policies imposed by governments other than ordinary customs duties which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644113
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Do's and Don'ts of Trade Policy in the Response to COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
Experience from previous global and food crises provides some guidance for appropriate trade responses during the crisis and those that are likely to undermine effective national and global responses. However, the speed, scale and nature of this crisis are unprecedented which requires thinking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646973
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When elephants make peace : the impact of the China-U.S. trade agreement on developing countries
Freund, Caroline L.; Maliszewska, Maryla; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2020
Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective preferential access for the United States to China's markets breaks multilateral rules against discrimination? The answer depends on how China implements the agreement....
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Trade policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis : evidence from a new data set
Evenett, Simon J.; Fiorini, Matteo; Fritz, Johannes; … - 2020
This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434632
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What are the poverty and inequality impacts of fiscal policy in Turkey?
Cuevas, P. Facundo; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Nebiler, Metin - 2020
Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and individual incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257124
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Demand-driven youth training programs : experimental evidence from Mongolia
Alzúa, María Laura; Batbekh, Soyolmaa; Batchuluun, … - 2020
structure shifted from a Communist, centrally planned economy to a free-market economy over a relatively short period, offers a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240737
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Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh
Sheahan, Megan - 2016
Are ostensibly demand-driven public works programs with high levels of safeguards nonetheless susceptible to political influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Focusing on one state where...
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