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Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Tall and not so Tall Women of India
Viswanathan, Brinda; Sharma, Viney - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. The main findings show that regional level...
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Rethinking Agricultural Production Collectivities : The case for a group approach to energize agriculture and empower poor farmers
Agarwal, Bina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the predominance of small and marginal farms and an emerging feminization of agriculture, this paper argues for a new institutional approach to poverty reduction, agricultural revival and social empowerment. It makes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363569
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What Determines the Gradient among Children in Developing Countries? Evidence from Indonesia
Park, Cheolsung - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
-SES families but little impact on health status of high-SES children. It weakens the gradient among school-age children. …I estimate the gradient among children 0 to 14 years old across different age groups using data from Indonesia. I find … that while the gradient is strong among the very young, it gets weaker and almost disappears among children older than 6. I …
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The More Kids, The Less Mom’s Divvy : Impact of Childbirth on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation
Fujii, Tomoki; Isikawa, Ryuichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form specifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in...
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The Relationship between Chronic Poverty and Household Dynamics : Evidence from Indonesia
Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; Sumarto, Sudarno; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The composition of households frequently change due to births, deaths, divorces, marriages, the departure of children …, households with a single female without children have the lowest probability of being either chronically poor or vulnerable …, while single male households with or without children have the highest probability of being vulnerable. Frequent changes in …
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Long-term Issues for Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–08 underlined the importance of maintaining fiscal space and fiscal sustainability. Even though many Asian economies implemented fiscal stimulus policies during the crisis period, their fiscal conditions generally improved rapidly...
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Long-term Issues for Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–08 underlined the importance of maintaining fiscal space and fiscal sustainability. Even though many Asian economies implemented fiscal stimulus policies during the crisis period, their fiscal conditions generally improved rapidly...
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The Five-Phases of Economic Development and Institutional Evolution in China and Japan
Aoki, Masahiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea : M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la Kuznets), H (human capital based) and PD (post...
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The Global Economic Crisis : An Opportunity for Strengthening Asia’s Social Protection Systems?
Asher, Mukul G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The current global economic crisis has led to greater prominence for the issue of strengthening social protection systems in Asia. This paper analyzes the key factors determining and the possible avenues for strengthening social protection systems in Asia. The choice of an appropriate...
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Regional Trade and Investment Architecture in Asia-Pacific : Emerging Trends and Imperatives
Bonapace, Tiziana - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Regionalism has become a key component of the new international order. It offers to the governments of developed and developing countries a new and attractive complementary strategy to multilateralism. Most countries of the world today belong to one or more regional trading arrangements of some...
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