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Employment Effects of Growth Rebalancing in China
Fund, International Monetary - 2009
This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward …
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The Distributional Impact of a Carbon Tax in Asia and the Pacific
Alonso, Cristian - 2022
While a carbon tax is widely acknowledged as an efficient policy to mitigate climate change, adoption has lagged. Part of the challenge resides in the distributional implications of a carbon tax and a belief that it tends to be regressive. Even when not regressive, poor households could be hurt...
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Social spending in Korea : can it foster sustainable and inclusive growth?
Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2012
Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....
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What Makes Growth Sustained?
Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008
We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...
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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth : Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia
Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2013
This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a...
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Mind the Gap; Is Economic Growth in India Leaving Some States Behind?
Purfield, Catriona - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines how growth has varied across India's states. It finds that (i) the income gap between rich and poor states has widened; (ii) rich and faster-growing states have been more effective in reducing poverty; (iii) poor and slower-growing states have had little success in generating...
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Understanding India’s Services Revolution
Gupta, Poonam; Gordon, James P. F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
that deregulation continues. In addition, the paper shows that employment growth in the Indian services sector has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264131
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Job-Specific Investment and the Cost of Dismissal Restrictions; The Case of Portugal
Takizawa, H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Using a search and matching labor market equilibrium model, this paper quantifies lost labor productivity and consumption per worker that emerges from the restrictions on dismissals. Dismissal restrictions hamper the efficient reallocation of workers, with workers remaining longer in jobs. But...
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Can policies affect employment intensity of growth? : a cross-country analysis
Crivelli, Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; Toujas-Bernaté, Joël - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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Can Women Save Japan?.
Steinberg, Chad - 2012
? -- IV. Women to the Rescue: Policies to Raise FLP in Japan -- A. Hurdle 1: Employment and Promotion Policies -- B. Hurdle 2 …
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