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The Macro-Economic and Sectoral Impacts of HIV and AIDS in India
Ojha, Vijay P.; Pradhan, Basanta K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The adverse economic impact of HIV and AIDS occurs at three levels : the individual/household, sector, and national or macro-levels. In the early phase of the epidemic, the impacts at the sector and macro-levels are rather mild and, hence, not easily measurable or quantifiable. So far in India,...
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India’s Trade in Drugs and Pharmaceuticals : Emerging Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Joseph, Reji K - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
It was argued in the context economic reforms in pharmaceuticals sector, particularly in the context of changing patent regime, that growth in exports would be restricted, imports would get a fillip and balance of trade would be adversely affected. The paper looks into the recent experience in...
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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
in Africa. We focus on instabilities in output, consumption and investment, and use both single and system estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365283
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Exogenous Shocks and Exchange Rate Management in Developing Countries
Anwar, Sajid; Ali, S. Zahid - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Even though globalization benefits less developed countries (LDCs), it also makes them more vulnerable to the exogenous …
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India-Africa Economic Partnership : Trends and Prospects
Mohanty, S. K.; Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
With the growing internationalisation, the traditional old linkages between India and Africa are gradually emerging as … trade between India and Africa has almost doubled in last couple of years with rapid rise in Indian investments in the … context that India and Africa are also playing a key role at various global fora such as WTO. …
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Recent trends in China’s trade
Wang, Alice - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
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Impacts of Current Global Economic Crisis on Asia’s Labor Market
Huynh, Phu; Kapsos, Steven; Kim, Kee Beom; Sziraczki, Gyorgy - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the Pacific as well as national policy responses to the crisis. It draws on recent macroeconomic, trade, production, investment, and remittances data to assess the employment and...
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Poverty-reducing or Poverty-inducing? A CGE-based Analysis of Foreign Capital Inflows in Pakistan
Siddiqui, Rizwana; Kemal, A. R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Foreign capital inflows (FKI) help an economy by financing the imbalance between income and expenditure. However, their impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this study, we examine the impact on poverty in two different scenarios : (1) labour is homogeneous; (2)...
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Objective Measures of Family Welfare for Individual Targeting : Results from Pilot Project on Community Based Monitoring System in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Akhmadi; Hastuti; Toyamah, Nina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This report documents the results of a pilot project on a new poverty monitoring system that improves the current system in three areas. First, it involves the locals in monitoring poverty in their own area. Second, the poverty indicators are sensitive to local conditions, accurate, and cannot...
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The Effectiveness of the Raskin Program
Hastuti; Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep; Mawardi, Sulton - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The Raskin program is a subsidized rice program for poor families which provides 10 kg of rice per poor households at the price of Rp1,000 per kg. This report describes the findings of the study undertaken by the SMERU Research Institute to uncover the effectiveness of the Raskin program in...
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