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"The "New Open Economy Macroeconomics" argues that: (a) non-monetary factors have gained importance in explaining exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real and nominal shocks to real exchange rates. The goal of...
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"The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase in internationally traded food prices since 2002 and estimates the contribution of various...
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"Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? Yang examines Philippine...
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Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS. The key policy conclusions of each of the chapters are highlighted in this … described here is available on the website www.worldbank.org/trade/russia-wto. This paper first explains the potential … first part treats trade policy (with applications to Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS]). The second …
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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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"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this finding and assess its robustness to the...
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"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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telecommunications companies in Russia has been a significant issue in Russia's accession negotiations. Jensen, Rutherford, and Tarr use …
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