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The median voter hypothesis has been central to an extensive literature on consequences of income distribution. For example, it has been proposed that greater inequality is associated with lower growth, because of the greater redistribution that is sought by the median voter when income...
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This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by children’s households in New Zealand over the 1997/98, 1998/99, and 1999/2000 periods are analysed. The annual Income Supplement to the Household Labour Force Survey allows...
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The privatization of agriculture in Azerbaijan started in the mid 1990s, while the pace of privatization in the country differs. Some Rayons have privatized almost all of the former state-owned agricultural land while others hold a wait and see strategy. The agricultural administration observes...
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estimation of municipal household income in the Region of Murcia. …
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This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using data … culled from the 2 rounds of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), we explore different sets of exogenous instruments …
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paper then surveys the particular governance challenge in Vietnam as it continues its transition from central planning to … markets. The nature and characteristics of the present administrative structure in Vietnam are then surveyed, followed by a …
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generally low, but in a labour intensive country such as Vietnam could still be seen as an advantage. Employment levels were …
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This report follows up on a 1996 UNDP survey of microfinance activity in Vietnam. The need was not simply because of … benefit. This report had highlighted a number of problems concerning microfinance in Vietnam. These concerns, however, should … experiments with new forms of credit cooperatives, and it is now seeking to mobilise savings through post offices. The missing …
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The economic performance of Vietnam in the 1990s would be classified as a “miracle” if such achievements were not so … stabilisation for the first decade. The state sector was never large in Vietnam, where 80 percent of the population lives in rural … easy without the burden of a large military-industrial complex, and Vietnam’s exports to CMEA found new Western buyers with …
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presents such estimates in the case of Vietnam. …
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