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by the Government of Nepal. The analysis utilizes customs-level data for 2011-14, combined with information on the … subsidy payments made to individual firms provided by the Central Bank of Nepal. The Cash Incentive Scheme for Exports cash …. Overall, the subsidy has not produced a significant impact on firm-level export values, prices, quantities, or their growth …
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associated with mental illness on the willingness to seek mental healthcare among adults in Nepal. The first intervention shares …
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … (France, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom), growth positively causes immigration, whereas in any country, immigration … does not cause growth. …
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In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. Although the improved growth performance has helped to improve human development and reduce poverty, poverty levels remain high … in many countries and more needs to be done to make growth more inclusive .In the second part we estimate the trend …
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We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …
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We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly …
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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the …
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By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers' productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and … decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average … waiting time, and slows their growth by around 10 percent, leading to a 10 percent reduction in franchised chain employment. …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and education decisions. We identify bilateral...
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