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This study examines the profile and determinants of poverty in the two largest cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. Data used in this study are from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey. Using the poverty line of 12,000 thousand VND/year, the poverty incidence is estimated at 17.4 percent for...
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This paper attempts to analyze the causal relationship between central government revenue and expenditure for India … between central government revenue and expenditure. The result from Granger causality test based on Vector Error Correction … should try to raise revenue and cut expenditure simultaneously in order to control the respective fiscal deficit. The short …
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Tourism and traveling industry represents, at international level, the most dynamic economic sector. At the same time, the most important job creator and a source of national economies recovering. Being a complex activity, tourism industry is putting together the efforts of a lot of economic...
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The Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to reconstruct the health care expenditure evolution in Italy and in the Region …
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capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in … Vietnam increases household income and expenditure. Yet, the study also finds evidence that international remittances may …
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The main focus of the study is to find the determinants of money demand in Pakistan. We used disaggregated expenditures approach in this regard. To find the co-integration among the variables of the model, Johansen co-integration approach is utilized. The results of the study show that the...
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This paper studies the effects of monetary policy on the expenditure of households of different ages using micro data … from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. I find that contractionary monetary policy shocks reduce the expenditure of …
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Since interest is prohibited in Islam, the government in an Islamic economy cannot issue interest based T-Bills, T-Bonds and/or obtain interest based sovereign debt. Based on the literature review, it is argued that neither Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) nor the pious Caliphates (rta) levied any...
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This paper presents our findings on the structural relationship between household income and consumption expenditure in … per capita consumption expenditure. Distribution of income and expenditure over the households is mildly unequal as the … Gini coefficients for them are 0.367 and 0.312 respectively. On the basis of income elasticity of consumption expenditure …
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This paper explores factors that influence households’ engagement in pro poor agro enterprises and examines the impacts of such small and medium scale enterprise on households’ poverty reduction. The paper approaches the objective by estimating a multivariate and data censoring analyses on...
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