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The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a disaggregated country-specific representation of the power sector to simulate the prospective medium-run growth and distributional implications associated with a shift towards a...
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Building upon earlier work by Willenbockel (2013; MPRA Paper No.51501), this study provides an extended ex-ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African...
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This paper projects the effects of exogenous fertility changes in Turkey on the age structure of population and the … and the fertility rate are endogenous. The calibrated version of the model delivers three important results: First …. Third, even under an increasing rate of technological progress, a permanent upward shift in fertility levels would imply …
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An alternative theoretical setting is presented to characterise the money demand and the monetary equilibrium. Two main hypotheses are stated that contradict the assumptions normally sustained by scholars and policy-makers: National output is assumed to be a random variable, and people are...
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Exploring the short-run and long-run relationships between consumption of various sources of non-renewable energy, economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would be considered as a golden key to provide rational energy policies of Iran in the post sanctions era. The aim of this paper...
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allowed. Because of a great deal of low-cost abatement opportunities available in the energy sectors of China and India and …
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The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … China's family planning policy and accordingly, proposes a new policy measure that integrates the policy variations more … completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new …
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the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Using an economy-wide, global computable general equilibrium model, this paper …
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Within a framework of an overlapping generations endogenous growth model, this paper examines the effects of China …’s partially funded public pension on the fertility, the economic growth and the family old-age security. Chinese are assumed to … contribution rate reduces the rates of fertility and intergenerational transfer, and increases the economic growth rate. The …
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sex-ratio also depends up on fertility rate in any society. The findings points out that by comparing sex ratios across … fertility rates. Similar mistake can also happen while comparing sex-ratios across different points of time if the fertility …
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