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"Minimum wages are generally thought to be unenforceable in developing rural economies. But there is one solution - a workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor...
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As developing economies continue to mature and enter the next phase of reforms, labor market issues and key policy instruments such as the minimum wage increasingly come to the forefront. Increased globalization and wider competition compel countries to make labor markets more flexible so as not...
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"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether …" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site …
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(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …
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countries in Asia and Australasia, and Canada and the United Kingdom. The authors find that the institutional factors which most …
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of adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other consumers. They do so … would boost the productivity of unskilled workers among Asia's poor. This paper--a product of the Trade Team, Development …
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