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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to … 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that … the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677675
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Household Vulnerability to Income Shocks in Emerging and Developing Asia: the Case of Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam
De Stefani, Alessia - 2022
We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060522
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Fiscal Sustainability, Public Investment, and Growth in Natural Resource-Rich, Low-Income Countries : The Case of Cameroon
Samake, Issouf - 2013
sustainability in Cameroon. We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of such investment on … that Cameroon's large infrastructural needs and relatively low current debt levels could justify a temporary deviation from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409427
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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil : Evidence From A Social Security Reform
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to … 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that … the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409070
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Inequality, Leverage and Crises: The Case of Endogenous Default
Kumhof, Michael; Ranciere, Romain; Winant, Pablo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The paper studies how high household leverage and crises can arise as a result of changes in the income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790328
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Consumption Based Estimates of Urban Chinese Growth
Chamon, Marcos; Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142159
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Corruption and Technology-Induced Private Sector Development.
Yehoue, Etienne B - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042567
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What's Driving Private Investment in Malaysia? Aggregate Trends and Firm-Level Evidence.
Guimarães, Roberto Pereira - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SOME STYLIZED FACTS -- III. DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE INVESTMENT -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIX: A CANONICAL MODEL OF CORPORATE INVESTMENT -- References.
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Where Does the Public Sector End and the Private Sector Begin?
Lienert, Ian - 2009
The boundary between the public and private sectors can be defined on the basis of ownership of institutional units. Nonmarket government-owned entities and corporations that are owned or controlled by government units belong to the public sector. "Economic ownership" is more important than...
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Do IMF Programs Stimulate Private Sector Investment?
Bomprezzi, Pietro - 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the role of IMF programs in stimulating private sector investments. Using detailed firm-level data on tangible fixed assets and a local projection methodology, we first estimate the dynamic response of firm investments to the approval of an IMF arrangement. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060247