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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive - 2009
"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...
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Global monetary conditions versus country-specific factors in the determination of emerging market debt spreads
Dailami, Mansoor - 2005
"The authors offer evidence that U.S. interest rate policy has an important influence in the determination of credit spreads on emerging market bonds over U.S. benchmark treasuries and therefore on their cost of capital. Their analysis improves on the existing literature and understanding by...
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What determines U.S. swap spreads?
Kóbor, Ádám - 2005
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Does judicial efficiency lower the cost of credit?
Laeven, Luc - 2003
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The emerging project bond market : covenant provisions and credit spreads
Dailami, Mansoor - 2003
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Immunization
World Bank - 2012
Immunization deserves high priority, especially in developing countries, for three reasons: vaccine-preventable diseases, disproportionately affect the poorest fifth of the population; immunization is among the most cost-effective interventions, and has a major impact in reducing the burden of...
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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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