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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program
Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468658
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Remittances and the Brain Drain
Faini, Riccardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114298
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances … about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability …
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A Gini Decomposition Analysis of Inequality in the Czech and Slovak Republics during the Transition
Garner, Thesia I; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very little, and by a similar amount, from 1989–93 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This surprising result is examined with an analysis of changes in the channels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123731
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Non-Separable Preferences and Frisch Labor Supply: One Solution to a Fiscal Policy Puzzle
Bilbiie, Florin Ovidiu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper proposes a theoretical explanation of the empirical finding that private consumption increases in response to an increase in government spending. The explanation requires two ingredients. First, labor demand expands (e.g. prices are sticky). Second, general non-separable preferences...
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Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects and Markups
Monacelli, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We document that an increase in government purchases generates a rise in consumption, the real and the product wage, and a fall in the markup. This evidence is robust across alternative empirical methodologies used to identify innovations in government spending (structural VAR vs. narrative...
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Non-Keynesian Effects of Fiscal Policy Changes: International Evidence and the Swedish Experience
Giavazzi, Francesco; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
In earlier work we documented two episodes in which a sharp fiscal consolidation was associated with a surprisingly large expansion in private domestic demand. In this paper we draw on further evidence to investigate if and when fiscal policy changes can have such non-Keynesian effects. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136472
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Will Trade Liberalization Harm the Environment? The Case of Indonesia 2020
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
. This paper provides a methodology for doing that. It is illustrated with a case study of Indonesia, a large newly …
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Growing into Trouble: Indonesia After 1966
Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This paper analyses the remarkable growth experience of Indonesia since 1966. Over a thirty-year period, GDP per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791453
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Former Foreign Affiliates: Cast Out and Outperformed?
Javorcik, Beata; Poelhekke, Steven - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...
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