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rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings … social stigma. In this paper the authors investigate residential mobility among slum dwellers in Bhopal, India. Their … household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers …
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In 2010, 102 infrastructure projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closing in 4 low- and middle-income countries in South Asia, involving investment commitments of US$47 billion. Infrastructure projects implemented in the 1990-2009 period attracted new investment of...
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"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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"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … migration decision has been taken, savings can increase as a function of violence to ensure a minimum bundle to carry. Empirical …
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. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and …
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explains most of the variation over time; (2) high household saving explains only a part of the large difference in national …
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