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Do free-of-charge public health services impede cost recovery policies in Khartoum state, Sudan?
Habbani, Khalid; Groot, Wim; Jelovac, Izabela - HAL - 2007
We carried out a household survey in Khartoum state in 2001 to analyse the characteristics of those who receive free public health services and to ascertain whether there are any impediments to cost recovery policies for health care use. Data were collected through interviews based on an adapted...
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Agriculture and trade liberalization in Vietnam
Coello, Barbara - HAL - 2007
This paper provides an ex-post analysis of the impact of trade liberalization in Vietnam between 1993 and 1998, taking into account regional differences. First, a price pass-through analysis is performed to measure how trade liberalization influence provincial prices. These results are plugged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643225
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How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria
Brülhart, Marius; Carrere, Céline; Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2011
We study the responses of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential...
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Trade liberalization and poverty dynamics in Vietnam 2002-2006
Coello, Barbara; Fall, Madior; Suwa-Eisenmann, Akiko - HAL - 2010
This paper shows the evolution of poverty in Vietnam during the deepening of trade liberalization and examines the impact of trade-related variables at the household level. The study is based on a panel dataset of households followed in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Trade-related variables at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738765
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Trade liberalization and heterogeneous within-firm productivity improvements
Bas, Maria; Ledezma, Ivan - HAL - 2008
This paper develops an intra-industry model of trade with heterogeneous firms to investigate the impact of trade on the evolution of within firm productivity. The main contribution is to incorporate endogenous labor productivity gains. Heterogeneous firms have different incentives to invest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738914
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The Fiscal Cost of Trade Liberalization
Cagé, Julia; Gadenne, Lucie - HAL - 2014
This paper puts the recent evolution of tax revenues in developing countries in historical perspective. Using a novel dataset on total and trade tax revenues we compare the fiscal cost of trade liberalization in developing countries and in today's rich countries at earlier stages of development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738978
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On the impact of trade on industrial structures: The role of entry cost heterogeneity
Oyama, Daisuke; Sato, Yasuhiro; Tabuchi, Takatoshi; … - HAL - 2009
This paper investigates the impacts of progressive trade openness, technological externalities, and heterogeneity of individuals on the formation of entrepreneurship in a two-country occupation choice model. We show that trade opening gives rise to a non-monotonic process of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739068
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Households heterogeneity in a global CGE model: an illustration with the MIRAGE-HH (MIRAGE-HouseHolds) model
Bouet, Antoine; Estrades, Carmen; Laborde, David - HAL - 2013
The objective of this paper is to develop a version of the MIRAGE model with household heterogeneity and a public agent, to better analyze the impact of trade liberalization and other trade reforms on real income and welfare at the household level In a first step, the model disaggregates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821273
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Trade and investment in Latin America and Asia : Potential perspectives from further integration
Bouet, Antoine; Berisha-Krasniqui, Valdete; Estrades, Carmen - HAL - 2011
investment flows. This paper analyzes the potential impact of a Free Trade Agreement between countries of both regions, applying … a world dynamic general equilibrium model (MIRAGE). The model includes a new way of modeling bilateral investment flows … and bilateral investment agreements. Our results show that most countries will benefit from the agreement; however, Latin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821434
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Trade liberalization, inequality and poverty in Brazilian states
Castilho, Marta; Menéndez, Marta; Sztulman, Aude - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization and international trade on household income inequality and poverty using detailed micro-data across Brazilian states, from 1987 to 2005. Results suggest that Brazilian states that were more exposed to tariff cuts experienced smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866182