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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify...
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point …-market economic activity (in the form of small-scale farming), and improve the self-reported food security of rural households that … farm, vis-à-vis those that do not. However, only non-farming households increase market food expenditure and consume more …
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beyond directly affected areas. This paper focuses on Somalia's al-Shabaab insurgency and investigates whether the food … agricultural areas, roads, and itineraries, we show that conflict along transportation routes significantly increases food prices … towards decreases in food transportation. Moreover, conflict decreases food security, nutrition, health, and education for …
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We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling … estimation and ii) identifying the channels through which food aid influences conflict. We argue that future work should contain …
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We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … and security concerns, are more deeply felt by female entrepreneurs. This may hint at the exclusion of Africa's females …
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We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...
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Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...
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We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall...
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