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Counting chickens when they hatch: The short-term effect of aid on growth

Clemens, Michael A.; Radelet, Steven; Bhavnani, Rikhil - EconWPA - 2004

Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We divide aid into three categories: (1) emergency and...

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On the Effectiveness of Marketing Planning

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

Managers are often told that formal planning helps. It is useful to examine whether this is good advice. Thus, I applaud this effort to study marketing planning in New Zealand. Nevertheless, I find it difficult to accept the conclusions drawn by the authors of “Marketing Planning in New...

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Police numbers up, crime rates down. The effect of police on crime in the Netherlands, 1996-2003

Vollaard, Ben - EconWPA - 2005

We present evidence on the effect of greater numbers of police personnel on crime and nuisance reduction in the Netherlands. We use a multiple time series design with police regions as the unit of analysis, covering the period 1996-2003. During this period, police resources increased...

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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Household Saving Behavior: The case of rural industry in Bantul

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - EconWPA - 2004

Indonesia (BRI). This situation could be indicated that banking institution just gives little attention on the rural households …

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Deforestation and Land Use Changes Induced by the East Asian Economic Crisis

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

affected countries. It focuses on three main countries—Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The analysis shows that there … continuum of effects, with Indonesia most heavily hit, the Philippines the least so, and Thailand somewhere in between. (b … migration has had a major impact. In Indonesia, the weakening of government authority and enforcement powers is also a major …

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Land Use Change in Indonesia

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

With an estimated loss of up to 20 million ha of forest over the past decade, deforestation in Indonesia has come to … the forefront of global environmental concerns. Indonesia is one of the most important areas of tropical forests worldwide … global importance because of their biodiversity and the carbon they sequester. Despite the benefits they provide, Indonesia …

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INEQUALITY AND OIL SUBSIDY IN INDONESIA

Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

economical resurrection in Indonesia. …

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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or … both concepts in the decade of the 1990’s; Indonesia, on the contrary, displays decreasing inequality in both from the …

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