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The macroeconomic costs of conflict
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2020
Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines...
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What can boost female labor force participation in Asia?
Kinoshita, Yuko; Guo, Fang - 2015
fertility, and (iv) there is a need for more public spending on childcare for age 6-11 in Japan and Korea to help women continue …
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Tackling legal impediments to women's economic empowerment
Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, … - 2022
It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's...
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Trade and inclusive growth
Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021
This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...
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Economic impact of selected conflicts in the Middle East : what can we learn from the past?
Sab, Randa - 2014
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COVID-19 in Latin America : a high toll on lives and livelihoods
Bakker, Bas B.; Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Soares - 2021
Latin America was hit hard by Covid-19, both in terms of lives and livelihoods. Early lockdowns in the second quarter of 2020 prevented an explosion of deaths at the time but did not stop the pandemic from later wreaking havoc in the region. This paper investigates the dynamics of pandemics in...
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Demographic transition and pension reforms : adding demographics to GIMF
Carton, Benjamin; Fernandez-Corugedo, Emilio; Hunt, … - 2020
The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is a multi-region, forward-looking, DSGE model developed at the International Monetary Fund for policy analysis and international economic research. This paper documents the incorporation of demographic features into the model. The analysis...
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China’s Demography and its Implications
Lee, Il Houng - 2013
In coming decades, China will undergo a notable demographic transformation, with its old-age dependency ratio doubling to 24 percent by 2030 and rising even more precipitously thereafter. This paper uses the permanent income hypothesis to reassess national savings behavior, with greater...
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Economic Implications of China's Demographics in the 21st Century
Cheng, Kevin C. - 2003
general equilibrium model. The simulations show that lower fertility rates yield lower saving rates. Since lower fertility … mobility is high in China, a low fertility rate implies more future capital outflows. But if capital is less mobile, low … fertility today lowers the domestic return to capital and raises the domestic return to labor. In addition, the paper finds no …
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Women workers in India : why so few among so many?
Das, Sonali; Jain Chandra, Sonali; Kochhar, Kalpana; … - 2015
This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participation rates for women among peer countries. Using extensive Indian household survey data, we model the labor force participation choices of women,...
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