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surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household … variables improves accuracy, as does including additional community-level predictors (available from data in Vietnam) related to …
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surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …
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In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
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known form of variance I test the findings of the theoretical model with data from Nicaragua. Evidence suggests that … migrants from Nicaragua remit for altruistic reasons. Moreover some gender heterogeneity seems to exist in the remitting …
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innovative procedure and we show its implementation by analysing the determinants of consumption in Nicaragua, based on data from …
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evaluate one of Malawi's main malaria prevention campaigns, a nationwide insecticide-treated-net (ITN) distribution scheme, in … that Malawi's ITN distribution campaign reduced child mortality by 1 percentage point, which corresponds to about 30% of …
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We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …
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Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …
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Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...
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relaxes credit constraints. Using longitudinal data for Vietnam from 1993-98, we find that households participating in non …
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