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A note on rising food prices
Mitchell, Donald O. - 2008
"The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase in internationally traded food prices since 2002 and estimates the contribution of various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521077
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Tango with the gringo : the hard peg and real misalignment in argentina
Serven, Luis - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523012
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394190
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Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust
World Bank - 2016
The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies overthe past six months. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses the implications of these developments and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246685
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International migration, human capital, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Philippine migrants' exchange rate shocks
Yang, Dean - 2005
"Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? Yang examines Philippine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522622
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394189
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522083
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522403
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522876
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Volatility and Growth
Hnatkovska, Viktoria - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523118