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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281943
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395270
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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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The role of e-government in promoting Foreign Direct Investment inflows
Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2021
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International trade and corporate market power
Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus; Yang, Yuanchen - 2020
This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on a large firm-level dataset, tariff data by sector and agreggate indicators of international...
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Remittance concentration and volatility : evidence from 72 developing countries
Hosny, Amr - 2020
This paper contributes to the literature by introducing the role of geographic concentration of the source of remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of...
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Some policy lessons from country applications of the DIG and DIGNAR models
Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Melina, Giovanni; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2019
Over the past seven years, the DIG and DIGNAR models have complemented the IMF and World Bank debt sustainability framework (DSF) analysis, over 65 country applications. They have provided useful insights in the context of program and surveillance work, based on qualitative and quantitative...
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Do fiscal rules cause fiscal discipline over the electoral cycle?
Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Joanis, Marcelin - 2019
This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on political budget cycles in a sample of 67 developing countries over the period 1985-2007. We exploit the geographical pattern in the adoption of fiscal rules to isolate an exogenous source of variation in the adoption of national fiscal...
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