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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of trade liberalization can only be properly analysed in a CGE model. However, the aggregate nature of CGE models is not suited to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by...

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Did Industrialization Destroy Social Capital in Indonesia?

Miguel, Edward; Gertler, Paul; Levine, David - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the effect of industrialization on social capital in Indonesia during 1985 to 1997 using repeated … literature, and may have implications for social instability in Indonesia since 1997. …

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Dispersión y Estabilidad de las Diferencias Salariales interestatales en México, 1984-2000

Cortez, Willy W. - EconWPA - 2005

Economic liberalization has induced a new dynamics on wage setting and employment on Mexican labor market. These changes have been caused by two related events: productive restructuring and increasing labor market flexibility. To the extent that productive restructuring has implied significant...

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Understanding the Effects of Sibling Composition on Child

Makepeace, Gerald; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper argues that spacing between consecutive births is an important aspect of competition among siblings for survival. Since parents simultaneously choose their desired values of birth spacing and the amount of time and other resources invested in children (which in turn affect child...

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Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing, parental use of health inputs and child mortality in Bangladesh. In order to account for the potential endogeneity of the age at birth and use of health inputs, (hospital delivery and child vaccination) in the child mortality...

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Understanding the Effects of Siblings on Child Mortality: Evidence from India

Makepeace, Gerald; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the efffect of siblings on child mortality in the Indian state of West Bengal arguing that prior and posterior spacing between consecutive siblings are important measures of the intensity of competition among siblings for limited resources. Parental decisions regarding...

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...

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Industrialization and Infant Mortality

Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2005

On average, infant mortality rates are lower in more industrialized nations, yet health and mortality worsened during early industrialization in some nations. This study examines the effects of growing manufacturing employment on infant mortality across 274 Indonesian districts from 1985 to...

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A More Realistic Endogenous Time Preference Model and the Slump in Japan

Harashima, Taiji - EconWPA - 2004

This paper presents a more realistic endogenous time preference model, incorporating the property that impatience decreases as consumption increases. The model overcomes a serious drawback of the existing model, which needs the assumption of increasing impatience. The new model is applied to the...

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Nonparametric Efficiency Testing of Asian Stock Markets Using Weekly Data

LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004

data of six Asian stock markets - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand - using Sherry's (1992 … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing … even higher order (Markov) dependencies. Although the price innovations in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia are at least …

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