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Hnatkovska, Viktoria - 2004

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Papua New Guinea : Poverty and Access to Public Services

World Bank - 2013

This report analyzes the distribution of income, constructs a poverty profile, and looks at the extent to which the poor have access to basic services in Papua New Guinea. The analysis is based on data collected during a national household survey in 1996, and, data on a range of socioeconomic...

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Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution

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

Cadot, Olivier - 2006

spectacularly narrowed down, but this effect is dwarfed by that of world-price volatility. A counterfactual analysis based on a …

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Taking the bad with the good : volatility of foreign portfolio investment and financial constraints of small firms

Knill, April M. - 2005

"The author examines the impact of the volatility of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small …, the author finds that the volatility of foreign portfolio investment is only significantly associated with a decreased … volatility of foreign portfolio investment only hinders the growth of small firms significantly in periods when nations are …

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Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela : 1992-2002

Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004

"Preliminary evidence suggests that the rates of return to education in Venezuela have been declining since the 1970s. Patrinos and Sakellariou rigorously estimate the returns to education in Venezuela for the period 1992-2002 and link them to earlier available estimates from the 1980s. They use...

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