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The impact on Russia of WTO accession and the DOHA agenda : the importance of liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment in services for growth and poverty reduct...

Rutherford, Thomas Fox - 2005

households gaining. They find that global free trade would result in a weighted average gain to households in Russia of 0 … of 0.2 percent of consumption). Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia … from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. The results strongly support the view that Russia …

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Who bears the cost of Russia's military draft?

Lokshin, Michael - 2005

"The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare … implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple …

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Poverty in Russia : public policy and private responses

Klugman, Jeni (contributor) - 1997

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Russia : Reducing Poverty through Growth and Social Policy Reform

World Bank - 2012

The report is based on analysis of the main facets and dynamics of poverty in Russia since 1997. The analysis was …

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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...

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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....

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A macroeconomic framework for quantifying growth and poverty reduction strategies in Niger

Bayraktar, Nihal - 2005

"The authors apply the dynamic macroeconomic framework developed by Agnor, Bayraktar, and El Aynaoui (2004) to Niger. As in the original model, linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health), and growth are explicitly captured. Although...

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Global Economic Prospects 2006 : Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration

2005

International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...

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Using survey data to assess the distributional effects of trade policy

Porto, Guido Gustavo - 2003

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The mini-integrated macroeconomic model for poverty analysis : a framework for analyzing the unemployment and poverty effects of fiscal and labor market reforms

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2003

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