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Stagflation, savings, and the state : perspectives on the global economy

Lal, Deepak (ed.); Wolf, Martin (contributor) - 1986 - 1. print.

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Size distribution of income : a compilation of data

Jain, Shail - 1975

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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns

Kuegler, Alice - 2009

"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a reference point for new sample data from Venezuela....

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Transactional sex as a response to risk in Western Kenya

Robinson, Jonathan - 2009

"Formal and informal commercial sex work is a way of life for many poor women in developing countries. Though sex workers have long been identified as crucial in affecting the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the nature of sex-for-money transactions remains poorly...

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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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INGENS - Income Generation through Energy and Complementary Services : Status Report

World Bank - 2013

This is an internal status report to ESMAP and Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) which summarizes their ongoing work under a joint energy study entitled INGENS - Income Generation through Energy and. Complementary Services. INGENS has proposed (and started to test) a pragmatic,...

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Global food price inflation : implications for South Asia, policy reactions, and future challenges

Ahmed, Sadiq - 2008

inflation, and hurt growth. Although commodity prices have come down recently, the benefits are being clouded by the emergence … monetary policy to reduce inflation, and increased spending on a range of safety net programs for the poor. Some of the …

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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 … inflation since 2006 may have had a significantly negative impact on all Tanzanian households. Most of the negative impact comes … shielded from global commodity inflation because they derive a larger share of their incomes from agricultural activity and …

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What triggers inflation in emerging market economies?

Domaç, Ilker - 2004

"Emerging market economies (EMEs) have experienced a noticeable decline in inflation since the mid-1990s. Whether this … with the start of 24 inflation episodes in 15 EMEs between 1980 and 2001. They use pooled probit analysis to estimate the … contribution of the key factors to inflation starts. Their empirical results suggest that increases in the output gap, agricultural …

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Explaining and forecasting inflation in Turkey

Domaç, Ilker - 2004

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