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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...

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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence

Shankar, Rashmi - 2005

"The author presents evidence that balance sheet effects are critical determinants of both the likelihood of a crisis and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis. Both models predict that the occurrence of a balance of...

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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth

Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005

"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...

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A survey of securities laws and enforcement

Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio - 2004

"Lopez-de-Silanes examines the theoretical and empirical literature pertaining to securities laws and their enforcement by regulators and courts to establish what is known and what is yet unclear. Recent empirical research in the field has established that law matters. Mandatory disclosure...

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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data

Bourguignon, François - 2004

"Bourguignon, Goh, and Kim present an original method to study individual earning dynamics using repeated cross-sectional data. Because panel data of individuals are seldom available in developing countries, it is difficult to study individual earning dynamics and related issues such as the...

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Efficiency and equity of a marginal tax reform : income, quality, and price elasticities for Mexico

Nicita, Alessandro - 2004

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Do reorganization costs matter for efficiency? : evidence from a bankruptcy reform in Colombia

Gine, Xavier - 2006

"The authors study the effect of reorganization costs on the efficiency of bankruptcy laws. They develop a simple model … that predicts that in a regime with high costs, the law fails to achieve the efficient outcome of liquidating unviable … lowering reorganization costs, the reform improved the selection of viable firms into reorganization. In this sense, the new …

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Yemen : Towards Qat Demand Reduction

World Bank - 2012

This report, based on a household survey conducted in 2006, discusses options for discouraging qat consumption in Yemen. It draws on a survey-the first representative data collection exercise aimed specifically at assessing the qat consumption phenomena-which confirms that the use of this drug...

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Shifting Tourism Demand: : Risk, Health, and Sustainability in the Age of COVID-19

World Bank - 2022

COVID-19 created a dynamic shock to the international tourism industry, with the related health concerns and travel restrictions impacting travelers' perceptions of risk. Among the most affected economies were Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which are highly dependent on tourism receipts,...

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Patterns in household demand and saving

Lluch, Constantino - 1977

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