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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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Economic Openess, Disciplined Government and Ethnic Peace

Kumaran, Nava Ravi; Abeysinghe, Tilak - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Many studies have examined the determinants of ethnic conflicts in multi-ethnic developing countries and report a myriad of contributory factors. It is natural to observe many correlates because ethnic wars tend to gain their own momentum and proceed for variety of reasons that are not directly...

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Trade Regimes, Liberalization and Macroeconomic Instability in Africa

Dupasquier, Chantal; Osakwe, Patrick N. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Trade policy has been a very contentious issue in the discourse on African development. Using panel data for 33 African countries spanning the period 1986-2000, we examine the relationship between trade liberalization and macroeconomic instability in Africa. We focus on instabilities in output,...

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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

ï»¿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...

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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

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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

The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it is also extremely important for developing countries to achieve a high level of economic growth...

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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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