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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 …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing …

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Optimal devaluations

Hevia, Constantino - 2009

"According to the conventional wisdom, when an economy enters a recession and nominal prices adjust slowly, the monetary authority should devalue the domestic currency to make the recession less severe. The reason is that a devaluation of the currency lowers the relative price of non-tradable...

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Is there room for foreign exchange interventions under an inflation targeting framework? : Evidence from Mexico and Turkey

Domaç, Ilker - 2004

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Optimal investment allocation and exchange rate management in oil exporting countries : a normative analysis of the Dutch disease

Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 1981

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Trade and Foreign Exchange Policies in Iran : Reform Agenda, Economic Implications and Impact on the Poor

World Bank - 2013

Iran's economic performance in the last two decades has been very disappointing. This is highlighted by the fact that per capita GDP was 16 percent lower in 1998 than in 1979. However, the most important single reason for this poor performance was not any domestic economic policy, but the long...

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How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ?

Lloyd, Peter John - 2009

"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very differently for different commodities. Hence a weighted average across countries of nominal rates of assistance or consumer tax equivalents for a product can be misleading as an...

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Global distortions to agricultural markets : new indicators of trade and welfare impacts, 1955 to 2007

Lloyd, Peter John - 2009

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies' economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade and welfare-reducing effects of...

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The short and longer term potential welfare impact of global commodity inflation in Tanzania

Dessus, Sébastien - 2008

"This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to assess the welfare impact of commodity price inflation in Tanzania and possible tax policy responses in the short, medium, and long term. The results suggest that global commodity inflation since 2006 may have had a significantly...

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The elimination of Madagascar's vanilla marketing board, ten years on

Cadot, Olivier - 2006

"This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to regain some of the lost ground since the mid-1990s....

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Income diversification in Zimbabwe : welfare implications from urban and rural areas

Ersado, Lire - 2006

"The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption and expenditure surveys in...

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