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Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Housing Market; Were Evangelicals Left Behind?
Crowe, Christopher W. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The recent housing bust has reignited interest in psychological theories of speculative excess (Shiller, 2007). I investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. population-evangelical protestants-that may be less prone to speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative...
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Social Capital and Civil Society
Fukuyama, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
’s Dilemma games, it also is a byproduct of religion, tradition, shared historical experience, and other types of cultural norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769240
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Union of the Comoros; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Union of the Comoros’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRGS) paper reports that the government⠅
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Dominica; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
for private enterprise and sectoral strategies; and poverty reduction and social protection programs. Economic growth in …
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Financial Development and Poverty Reduction; Can there Be a Benefit without a Cost?
Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont; Kpodar, Kangni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …
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Albania; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
) during 2004 in Albania. The NSSED established a multiyear plan to combat poverty and strengthen governance. The main …
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Tanzania's Growth Process and Success in Reducing Poverty
Treichel, Volker - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …
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India; Is the Rising Tide Lifting All Boats?
Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …
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Do Workers' Remittances Promote Economic Growth?
Gapen, Michael T.; Chami, Ralph; Montiel, Peter; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …
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Bangladesh; Joint Staff Advisory Note of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Joint Staff Advisory Note provides IMF staff advice on key priorities for strengthening Bangladesh’s poverty … that the strategic agenda of the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction (NSAPR), built on the policy triangle … poverty reduction. …
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