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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to result in the absence of public intervention. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market...
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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will J; Ivanic, Maros - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969350
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
Martin, Will J; Huang, Jikun; Liu, Yu; Rozelle, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...
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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Orden, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
, remain in effect for bilateral Canadian- U.S. trade. NAFTA received support from export-oriented U.S. producers of most … on Canadian export-pricing issues, and protected sugar, peanut, and winter fruit and vegetable producers. The opposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775000
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross; Beck, Thorsten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...
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Chinese Outwards Mercantilism – the Art and Practice of Bundling
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Zheng, Huanhuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) brought to the fore the limits of the Chinese export led-growth strategy and the need … for Chinese rebalancing. The Chinese export-led growth strategy of the 2000s coincided with the country becoming one of … construction services to developing countries. These activities are frequently bundled with access to finance and the export of …
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...
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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007
Bénétrix, Agustín S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163839
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Deal with the Devil: The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in a 15 percent increase in the attendance of the medical staff. Health outcomes improved, with a 16 percent increase in the delivery of infants by a doctor and a 26 percent...
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