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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 study outlines, with a review of earlier studies, the effects of international tourism by showing developments in tourism-related economic parameters and discusses the implications of such tourism on the economy of Turkey. It asks how far international tourism contributes to the economic...
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