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The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program has adopted a multisector approach to economic corridor development, requiring multisector investments, increased inter-sector coordination, and enhanced knowledge platform. An area of concern is facilitating safe labor migration....
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holiday per year, which should lead to adjustments in employment. For employees I use complementary log-log regression to … account for right-censoring of employment spells. I find no increase in the hazard to exit employment within a year after …. I also evaluate the long run trend in aggregate employment, using the predicted treatment probabilities in a difference …
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debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … pattern of male and female employment and discusses the indirect tax distortions across sectors within each country and … between countries. The possible impact of the indirect tax distortion on male and female employment is quantitatively assessed …
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health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and …
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The Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators 2012 (FIGI 2012) is the follow-up edition to FIGI 2011, which proposed a set of 35 indicators as measures of income and non-income outcomes of inclusive growth; the processes and inputs that are important to improve access to opportunities, social...
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Papua New Guinea’s economic growth has outpaced the majority of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific since 2007. Its development challenges, however, remain daunting, and it lags behind other countries in the region in terms of per capita income and achievement of the Millennium...
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Myanmar, which is emerging from decades of isolation, is poised to accelerate its economic growth on the back of its abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to achieve strong and inclusive growth.To take advantage...
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, through employment generation, and indirectly through an impact on agricultural wages. The paper illustrates that in Palanpur … previously disadvantaged and most vulnerable segments of village society have gained access to non-farm employment opportunities …
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pay of low wage workers, narrowed the gender pay gap and now covers around 1-worker-in-10. The consequences for employment … employment effects. The reasons for this include: an impact on hours rather than workers; employer wage setting and labour market …
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