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Hnatkovska, Viktoria - 2004

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Poverty and income seasonality in Bangladesh

Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009

"Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre-harvest season of Aman rice. An analysis of household income and expenditure survey data shows that average household income and consumption are much lower during monga season than in...

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Health systems in East Asia : what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan (China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All five systems have managed to keep a check on health...

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Promoting access to primary equity markets : a legal and regulatory approach

Grose, Claire - 2006

"This paper examines legal and regulatory measures that can be taken to promote access to the primary market in emerging market economies. While capital market development depends on many factors including, primarily, a favorable macroeconomic environment, an appropriately designed and effective...

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The price of inconvertible deposits : the stock market boom during the Argentine crisis

Horen, Neeltje van - 2003

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Migration, spillovers, and trade diversion : the impact of internationalization on stock market liquidity

Levine, Ross - 2003

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Bank activity and funding strategies : the impact on risk and returns

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2009

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns using an international sample of 1,334 banks in 101 countries leading up to the 2007 financial crisis. Expansion into non-interest income generating activities such as trading...

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Portfolio Limits : Pension Investment Restrictions Compromise Fund Performance

World Bank - 2012

The value of funded pensions can depend critically on the funds' investment performance. To try and protect people's savings, governments often regulate pension funds strictly, particularly when contributions are mandatory. For example, the new funded pension systems in Latin America and Eastern...

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Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution

Calderón, César A. - 2009

"In contrast with a growing literature on the drivers of aggregate volatility in developing countries, its consequences … aggregate volatility has a regressive, asymmetric, and non linear impact, as reflected in the strong influence of extreme output …

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Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?

Calderón, César A. - 2009

exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real … openness to exacerbate or mitigate real exchange rate volatility. The authors collected information on the real effective …) High real exchange rate volatility is the result of highly volatile productivity shocks, and sharp oscillations in monetary …

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