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Sviluppo e riforme in Cile: apertura commerciale, fondi pensione e privatizzazione dei servizi/REFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHILE: Macro considerations on Int'l Trade, Pension Funds...
Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the growth pattern followed by the Chilean economy with reference to the macroeconomic reforms undertaken during the Pinochet regime, which were largely maintained by successive democratic administrations and partially reproduced by neighbouring countries. The focus is on the...
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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh
White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005
Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407646
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Environmental and Natural Resource Degradation in Intensive Agriculture in Bangladesh
Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004
in Bangladesh have tended to mask evidence of declining productivity. Although data are weak, numerous sources of …-term trials by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) also indicate that intensive rice cultivation can result in declining … Research Institute (IRRI). There is considerable debate over the exact causes of declining productivity. In Bangladesh, the …
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Returns to education in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M Niaz - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey …
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Exchange Rate Floating and Inflation Targeting Implementing - Lessons from a succesful transition - The Brazilian Case
Deheza, Juan Carlos Soldano - EconWPA - 2003
El objetivo de este paper es realizar una descripción del caso brasileño, en lo que hace a la salida de un sistema en el cual el ancla nominal de la economía era un tipo de cambio semi-fijo, hacia un régimen de flotación “cuasi” limpia de la moneda, en el que el ancla de la economía...
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CLAVES DE LA INFLACION DE 2005
Marongiu, Federico - EconWPA - 2005
El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
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National Appointments to Multinational Monetary Policy Making: A Role Conflict?
Ripoll, Jose - EconWPA - 2003
Territorial appointees to an independent central bank (e.g. District Federal Reserve Banks’ presidents, Governors of national central banks at the ECB’s Governing Council) are liable to confront a “role conflict” stemming from a duality of loyalties and allegiances - to the home regional...
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CAN MONETARY POLICY AFFECT THE REAL ECONOMY?
Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2002
Current monetary policy involves the manipulation of the Central Bank interest rate (the repo rate), with the specific objective of achieving the goal(s) of monetary policy. The latter is normally the inflation rate, although in a number of instances this may include the level of economic...
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A calibrated structural model of the Czech economy
Hlédik, Tibor - EconWPA - 2004
The paper presents a structural model framework for a small open economy. The model, based on optimising households and firms, has been calibrated on Czech macroeconomic data in order to develop an analytic framework suitable for analysing key policy questions related to the Czech Republic’s...
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Monetary Policy in the Euro Area - Lessons from the First Years
Clausen, Volker; Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2002
This paper investigates in a consistent semi-structural empirical framework three current issues of monetary policy in the euro area. First, regarding policy transmission we offer a three-stage procedure to combine the efficient estimation of economic structure prior to EMU with current ECB...
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