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HIPC and Trade Policy Reform: Some Early Observations

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

The HIPC Initiative requires countries receiving debt relief to undertake a Poverty Reduction Strategy programme … reforms in the context of their Poverty Reduction Strategies have performed better overall during 1997-2001 than countries …

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Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

aiuto allo sviluppo, basati sull’elaborazione di piani nazionali per la riduzione della povertà (Poverty Reduction Strategy …

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Che cosa è il capitale sociale

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

Attraverso una rassegna critica della letteratura, questo articolo vuole fornire una prima introduzione al concetto di capitale sociale - con particolare riferimento alla sua rilevanza nello studio dei processi di sviluppo - e dare conto del dibattito in corso su questo tema da più di un...

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Economic Community in East Asia: Japan's Leadership in the Regional Development on both Economic and Financial Sides

Kitagawa, Masaomi - EconWPA - 2005

East Asian nations are currently undertaking the future development of an economic community by creating a viable framework for closer cooperation and deeper integration. However, the intractable problem is that there are a lot of diversities and heterogeneity that have prevented the East Asian...

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Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

aiuto allo sviluppo, basati sull’elaborazione di piani nazionali per la riduzione della povertà (Poverty Reduction Strategy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118732

Comment on “Trade, Growth, and Poverty--A Selective Survey,” by Andrew Berg and Anne Krueger, and “Doha and the World Poverty Targets,” by L. Alan Winters

Nogues, Julio J. - EconWPA - 2005

liberalization and poverty reduction that works mainly through the growth-inducing effects of trade. The existence of this link … achieve if it is to reduce poverty. Therefore, in contrast to the article by Berg and Krueger, the emphasis in the discussion …

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Introducing a scale of market shocks

Zumbach, Gilles O.; Dacorogna, Michel M.; Olsen, Jorgen L. - EconWPA - 2004

Two 'event' scales for financial markets, called 'scale of market shocks' (SMS), are introduced, which measure the importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset volatilities over time horizons that range from 1...

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total … that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in … the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small …

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The Discounted Economic Stock of Money with VAR Forecasting

Barnett, William; Chae, Unja; Keating, John - EconWPA - 2005

We measure the United States capital stock of money implied by the Divisia monetary aggregate service flow, in a manner consistent with the present-value model of economic capital stock. We permit non-martingale expectations and time varying discount rates. Based on Barnett’s (1991) definition...

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THE HIDDEN INEQUALITY IN SOCIALISM

Henderson, David; McNab, Robert M; Rozsas, Tamas - EconWPA - 2004

In the same time period over which the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia became freer, measured inequality of income for those countries increased. Researchers linked the increase to the egalitarian values of socialism and to the process of economic and political...

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