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this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … convexity amongst the young. We also find evidence of increasing convexity over the 1990s in Tanzania, but remarkable stability … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …
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This paper examines the determinants of Uganda’s inflation rate during 1994M7-2005M6. We test the central hypothesis … that Uganda’s inflation rate is always and everywhere a non-monetary phenomenon. A theoretical background relating … results suggest insufficient evidence to accept the research hypothesis, as Uganda’s inflation rate is significantly …
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contraddizioni che caratterizzano le politiche perseguite dalle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. Fino a poco tempo fa, l’Uganda … sociale dell’Uganda, che sta rapidamente perdendo la fiducia dei donatori e delle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. L … seconda parte approfondisce il caso specifico dell’Uganda, attraverso un’analisi del contesto sociale e istituzionale del …
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This study examines the effects of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s flowers exports during 1994-2001 by testing … the central hypothesis that following the floating exchange rate regime, ‘Uganda’s exports of tropical flowers are … suggest that although Uganda’s flower exports are negatively correlated with exchange rate variability, the measured effects …
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This study empirically investigates Uganda’s equilibrium real exchange rate (EREER) during 1993M1 to 2004M12. Using … ARDL approach to cointegration, we find that a long-run relationship exists between Uganda’s REER and its determinants …-run EREER model. Comparing the actual REER and the EREER reveals that Uganda’s REER is overvalued over the recent period, 2003 …
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empirical study, quite recent and hardly discussed data from Uganda is used for the joint estimation of child labor and school …
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contraddizioni che caratterizzano le politiche perseguite dalle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. Fino a poco tempo fa, l’Uganda … sociale dell’Uganda, che sta rapidamente perdendo la fiducia dei donatori e delle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. L … seconda parte approfondisce il caso specifico dell’Uganda, attraverso un’analisi del contesto sociale e istituzionale del …
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Using monthly data, this study investigates the effects of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s aggregate export …-1993). The main research question it posits is: “What is the effect of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s exports?” Premised … on risk-aversion, the study tests the main hypothesis that ‘Uganda’s exports are negatively and significantly correlated …
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The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...
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This paper analyses the NAIRU making use of a cointegrated VAR and of Italian labour market data. We show that a cointegrated VAR represents a statistically adequate (using Aris Spanos's terminology) approach to the estimation of the NAIRU. This is an effective way to overcome several problems...
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