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and elevated inflation. Globally, environmental sustainability is becoming central to the economic agenda. The challenge …
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Lao PDR's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth will remain robust in 2011 with projected growth of 8.6 percent compared to 8.4 percent in 2010. Natural resources and manufacturing sectors are expected to drive growth this year. The expected growth in the garment exports (by about 15-20...
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"While providing the most reliable method of evaluating social programs, randomized experiments in industrial and developing countries alike are accompanied by political risks and ethical issues that jeopardize the chances of adopting them. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from...
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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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"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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"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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Food price inflation has increased persistently in recent years in Turkey with a widening divergence from international … food price inflation. The study analyzes the main inefficiencies in the Turkish agricultural sector through the lens of … that drive food price inflation in Turkey at the national level, grounded in econometric analyses and a literature review …
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