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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world …. This has resulted in a remarkable poverty reduction in the last two to three decades in the two economies. PRC and India … provide lessons to the developing world, particularly emerging economies, that are also struggling to improve their economic …
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Natural resource endowment : a mixed blessing?
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010049
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The asymmetric impact of economic policy and oil price uncertainty on inflation : evidence from developed and emerging economies
Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2023
This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on inflation by using a Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model, which is compared to a benchmark linear ARDL one. Using monthly data from the 1990s until August 2022 for a number of developed and...
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Fiscal policy during business cycles in developing countries : the case of Africa
Leibfritz, Willi; Rottmann, Horst - 2013
Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211466
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Ideologically-charged terminology : austerity, fiscal consolidation, and sustainable governance
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
Scholars have been active in investigating causes and consequences of austerity policies. We examine how economists use the term "austerity" in scientific studies and measure austerity in empirical analyses. The sample includes around 3,500 journal articles published in the top 400 journals...
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Trade liberalization and local development in India : evidence from nighttime lights
Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2023
We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights per capita but there was considerable heterogeneity...
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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786019
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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793157
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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017
We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at different extents. Borrowers can be (very) poor or...
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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays
Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019
The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
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