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What Matter for Child Development?
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using a panel data of nine-year old children each with over two hundred home and school inputs as well as family background variables. A tree regression method is used to conduct estimation under various...
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Reforming Foodgrains Management : Achieving Food Security with Cost-Effectiveness
Ganesh-Kumar, A.; Gulati, Ashok; Cummings, Ralph; Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363561
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Trade Liberalization, Poverty and Food Security in India
Panda, Manoj; Ganesh-Kumar, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper attempts to assess the impact of trade liberalization on growth, poverty, and food security in India with the help of a national level computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. It shows that GDP growth and income poverty reduction that might occur following trade liberalization need...
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Schooling and Political Participation Revisited
Chor, Davin; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country characteristics. We introduce a focus on a set of variables - namely factor endowments - which inuence the relative productivity of human capital in political versus production activities....
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Moving Out of Poverty : The Case of Gura, Kabupaten Halmahera Utara
Mawardi, Sulton; Akhmadi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
: the level of conflict intensity and level of economic growth. The village of Gura in Kabupaten Halmahera, in the Province … of Maluku Utara, represents the sample area with a high conflict intensity and high economic growth. Based on these two … result of the interaction of various factors, such as economic, social, and other factors related to conflict. The community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363589
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Moving Out of Poverty : The Case of Desa Branta Pesisir, Kabupaten Pamekasan
Marianti, Ruly; Munawar, Wawan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Poverty is an extremely complex phenomenon that is linked to many specific factors and contexts. In the present study, the dynamics of poverty including movements out of poverty are seen as part of the social mobility that occurs in a community. This study specifically aims to understand why and...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365043
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Conflict in Cross Border Mergers Effect of Firm and Market Size
Mehra, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper tries to analyze the interrelationship between possibilities of conflict in cross border mergers and … asymmetry across firms reduces the possibility of conflict between jurisdictions over merger review decisions. We also show that … possibility of conflict increase with the increase in market asymmetries across countries. We also discuss interaction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365327
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Agriculture and Food Security in Asia by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278139
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Agriculture and Food Security in Asia by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278244