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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence
Shankar, Rashmi - 2005
"The author presents evidence that balance sheet effects are critical determinants of both the likelihood of a crisis and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis. Both models predict that the occurrence of a balance of...
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Zambia - What Would it Take for Zambia???s Beef and Dairy Industries to Achieve Their Potential?
World Bank - 2012
Development Unit (AFTFP). This report explores the potential contribution that the beef and dairy industries could make to jobs … economy. This report explores the potential contribution that the beef and dairy industries could make to the government … large potential for developing its beef and dairy industries: the country could sustain more than double its current …
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Explaining U.S. immigration, 1971-98
Clark, Ximena - 2004
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009
"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...
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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005
"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...
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A survey of securities laws and enforcement
Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio - 2004
"Lopez-de-Silanes examines the theoretical and empirical literature pertaining to securities laws and their enforcement by regulators and courts to establish what is known and what is yet unclear. Recent empirical research in the field has established that law matters. Mandatory disclosure...
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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data
Bourguignon, François - 2004
"Bourguignon, Goh, and Kim present an original method to study individual earning dynamics using repeated cross-sectional data. Because panel data of individuals are seldom available in developing countries, it is difficult to study individual earning dynamics and related issues such as the...
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The foreign-born population in the European Union and its contribution to national tax and benefit systems : some insights from recent household survey data
Barbone, Luca - 2009
"Despite the purported surge in internal migration following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, data from the 2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the European Union's population. Depending on the exact...
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Three essays on a Sri Lanka household survey
Deaton, Angus - 1981
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Household survey experience in Africa
Booker, William; Singh, Parmeet; Savane, Landing - 1980
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