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Social Protection and Economic Development : Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - 2018
Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453055
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The Usual Suspects? Productivity and Demand Shocks and Asia-Pacific Real Exchange Rates
Chinn, Menzie David - 1997
The evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian currencies is examined. Using sectoral output and employment data, relative prices and relative productivities are calculated for China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472706
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Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in East Asia and the Pacific?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1992
This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1) Gravity-model estimates of bilateral trade show that the level of trade in East Asia is biased intra-regionally, as it is within the European Community and within the Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474929
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Regionalism and rivalry : Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia
Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.); Kahler, Miles (contributor) - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480821
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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world's poorest countries in the 1960s, joined the ranks of First World economies in little over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453866
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Globalization and poverty
Harrison, Ann E. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377127
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The problems of disadvantaged youth : an economic perspective
Gruber, Jonathan (ed.) - 2009
Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth -- Is gaining access to selective elementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800493
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Globalization and poverty
Harrison, Ann E. (ed.) - 2013
silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and … finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and pove …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012673744
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Why do people stay poor?
Balboni, Clare; Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660018
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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles - 1985
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477364