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Dynamics and Time Scope of Post War Recovery Required for Compensating Civil War Economic Losses

Nam, Chang Woon - 2013

Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional economic, social and political system, leading...

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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO

Baccini, Leonardo - 2017

What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...

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Reducing Tariffs According to WTO Accession Rules : The Case of Vietnam

Barslund Fosse, Henrik - 2011

When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have … Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Jantti, Markus - 2013

equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam …

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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Decentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance : The Case of Vietnam

Thanh, Thuy Vu - 2012

formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of Vietnam. This paper finds that the formally decentralized system …

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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences with an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery

Deuchert, Eva - 2018

provide an empirical application based on the Vietnam draft lottery, where we analyse the impact of the random draft lottery …

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First Impressions : How Leader Changes Affect Bilateral Aid

Rommel, Tobias - 2017

This paper investigates a new mechanism to explain politically induced changes in bilateral aid. We argue that shifts in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country following leadership changes induce reallocation of aid. This is due to heightened uncertainty of...

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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument

Dreher, Axel - 2017

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that...

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Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?

Langlotz, Sarah - 2016

The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental...

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Regional and Ethnic Favoritism in the Allocation of Humanitarian Aid

Bommer, Christian - 2018

International humanitarian aid is pivotal in the response to natural disasters suffered by low-and middle-income countries. While its allocation has been shown to be influenced by donors' foreign policy considerations, power relations within recipient countries have not been addressed. This...

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