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There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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Rebalancing growth patterns of Asian economies is an important component of the overall rebalancing effort that will be required in the world economy. In this paper, I provide an empirical characterization of the composition of GDP levels and growth rates for the key emerging markets and other...
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Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy...
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....
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By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to UDLs for longer time accumulate more savings. This effect...
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Der Umsatz des deutschen Großhandels könnte im Jahr 2000 nominal um etwa 10% steigen. Nach den Ergebnissen der jüngsten Investitionserhebung des ifo Instituts hat die positive Entwicklung die Unternehmen zu einer Aufstockung ihrer Investitionsbudgets veranlasst: Mit 18,6 Mrd. DM wollen sie um...
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Die Bedeutung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen wird durch zahlreiche Studien belegt. Auch in Deutschland und in … Deutschland Neugründern besonders hohe administrative Barrieren zu. Deutsche KMU haben es außerdem mit einem der weniger …
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