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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption
Cai, Hongbin - 2010
This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...
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The Effects of Land Markets on Resource Allocation and Agricultural Productivity
Chen, Chaoran - 2017
reduces income inequality, is relatively scalable and explains a sizeable proportion of the full extent of misallocation …
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Spatial Misallocation in Chinese Housing and Land Markets
Deng, Yongheng; Tang, Yang; Wang, Ping; Wu, Jing - 2021
Housing and land prices in China have experienced dramatic hikes over the past decade or two. Moreover, housing and land prices have also become more dispersed across Chinese cities. This paper intends to explore how housing and land market frictions may affect not only the aggregate but also...
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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty : 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
Blattman, Christopher - 2018
In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four … years to find these start-up grants acted more as a kick-start than a lift out of poverty. Grantees' investment leveled off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911477
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Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 a Success ... And for the Poor?
Cook, Lisa D. - 2011
The Nigerian banking system was in crisis for much of the 1990's and early 2000's. The reforms of 2005 were ambitious in simultaneously attempting to address safety, soundness, and accessibility. This paper uses published and new survey data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation...
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is … to be less perfect in lagging states than in leading ones, especially in the rural sector. This suggests that poverty … of their populations in lagging regions experience greater reduction in poverty rates following trade liberalization. Our …
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Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments
Dupas, Pascaline - 2011
Using data from a field experiment in Kenya, we document that providing individuals with simple informal savings technologies can substantially increase investment in preventative health and reduce vulnerability to health shocks. Simply providing a safe place to keep money was sufficient to...
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Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2012
Are smarter machines our children's friends? Or can they bring about a transfer from our relatively unskilled children to ourselves that leaves our children and, indeed, all our descendants - worse off? This, indeed, is the dire message of the model presented here in which smart machines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096141
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The Effects of the Colombian Trade Liberalization on Urban Poverty
Goldberg, Pinelopi - 2012
We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …
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Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2012
Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth...
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