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Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure?
Joglekar, Rama - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on … health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into … poverty. Recently, health insurance has been considered as one of the possible instruments in reducing impoverishing effects …
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From Access to Income : Regional and Ethnic Inequality in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first …This study investigates regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia from five dimensions : access to education and …
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The Global Economic Recession and Industrial Structure : Evidence from Four Asian Dragons
Hsieh, Wen-jen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The collapse of exports that has attended the current global economic recession threatens the export-led economic growth of the four Asian dragons. To better understand the economic performances and future prospects of the four dragons, this paper first examines the economic structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652194
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The Global Economic Recession and Industrial Structure : Evidence from Four Asian Dragons
Hsieh, Wen-jen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The collapse of exports that has attended the current global economic recession threatens the export-led economic growth of the four Asian dragons. To better understand the economic performances and future prospects of the four dragons, this paper first examines the economic structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652199
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The WTO Negotiations on Industrial Tariffs : What is at Stake for Developing Countries?
Akyüz, Yilmaz - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper focuses on the implications of the negotiations on industrial tariffs for longer term industrialization in developing countries. It begins with a brief overview of the NAMA framework that is followed by a review of the historical experience of todays advanced countries regarding the...
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Industrial Growth And Environmental Degradation : A Case Study Of Tiruppur Textile Cluster
Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
manufacturing and trade with emphasis on employment, income and foreign exchange in regional economy perspective. Since the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363503
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THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC REFORMS ON INDIAN MANUFACTURERS : EVIDENCE FROM A SMALL SAMPLE SURVEY
Siggel, Eckhard; Agrawal, Pradeep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Although there has been much theorising on the impact of Indias economic reforms of 1991 on Indian manufacturers, there is hardly any previous study that has taken up the task of actually asking the manufacturing firms as to what the true impact of economic reforms has been on them. In this...
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Interface Between Competition Policy and Infrastructure Regulation in the Philippines
Medalla, Erlinda M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This short paper attempts to lay down the framework and basic principles for the optimum interface between competition policy and infrastructure regulation. Competition policy should address exclusionary and exploitative acts and discipline firms when such acts are committed. In certain cases,...
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Growth Diagnostics in Pakistan
Qayyum, Abdul; Khawaja, Idrees; Hyder, Asma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, we attempt to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. We argue that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the heart of the matter : corruption is rampant, judicial independence is low, educational institutions do not...
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Paradigms of Decentralization, Institutional Design and Poverty : Drinking Water in the Philippines
Singh, Satyajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper looks at the different paradigms of decentralization for drinking water supply in the Philippines and its effectiveness in poverty alleviation. As centralization and decentralization are not definitive concepts, but defining features, there are bound to be different pathways to...
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