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Addressing Regional Inequality Issues in Bangladesh Public Expenditure
Mahmoud, Chowdhury Shameem; Wadood, Syed Naimul; Ahmed, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Traditionally development effort of Bangladesh government have aimed at achieving equitable economic growth. The concept is an overriding factor in formulating national policy strategies of poverty alleviation. In this context, the objectives of poverty alleviation are mostly designed with...
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The Cost of Redistributive Land Reform in the Philippines : Assessment of PD 27 and RA 6657 (CARL)
Ballesteros, M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land reform in the country since 1972 with the approval of Presidential Decree 27. The coverage of the program was expanded to all agricultural lands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363638
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Public Provision of Education and Government Spending in Pakistan
Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-2005, and by employing the three-step Benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365048
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365294
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Financing Strategy for Achievement of the MDGs and Implementation of the Tenth Five Year Plan
Rao, M. Govinda; Seth, Anuradha; Rinzin, Chewang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This report presents an analysis of the strategy required to generate the required resources for investment in various services necessary to achieve the MDGs. The analysis attempts to quantify the fiscal space to finance the MDGs and identify the necessary fiscal reforms required to finance the...
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The Economics of Price Scissors : An Empirical Investigation for China.
Lin, Justin Yifu; Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of … consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. …
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How Much Do We Know about the Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Employment of Migrants?
Meng, Xin; Kong, Sherry Tao; Zhang, Dandan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363347
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Estimating the impacts of demographic and policy changes on pension deficit : a simple method and application to China
Yi, Zeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
employment rate. Our illustrative application to China shows that gradually increasing the current low minimum age of retirement …
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CHINA’S PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS
Tian, Huifang; Whalley, John - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363371
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Bangladesh Apparels Export to the US Market - An Examination of Her Competitiveness vis-à-vis China
Rahman, Mustafizur; Anwar, Asif - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The rise of China has major repercussions for a country such as Bangladesh which has emerged as an important player in … more than one player. Evidently, impact and implications of competition from China will have to be examined and scrutinized …
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