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Spring Cleaning : Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions

Kremer, Michael - 2009

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … are much smaller than levels implied by health planners' typical valuations of child mortality, consistent with models in … which the demand for health is highly income elastic. Simulations suggest that, at current income levels, private property …

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Worms at Work : Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment

Baird, Sarah - 2015

This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in …

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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries

Jha, Raghbendra - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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An Alternative View of Tax Incidence Analysis for Developing Countries

Shah, Anwar - 1990

This paper revisits the long-standing issue of the incidence of taxes in developing countries. Its central theme is that despite many decades of studies, tax incidence analyses for developing countries continue to be based upon the same shifting assumptions used in developed country studies,...

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Recent Trade Liberalization in the Developing World : What is Behind It, and Where is it Headed?

Whalley, John - 1989

This paper documents recent external sector liberalization in developing countries, evaluates what is behind it, and assesses whether it is likely to persist, accelerate or reverse itself. It draws heavily upon material collected during a recent Ford Foundation-supported research project on...

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Coalitions in the Uruguay Round : The Extent, Pros and Cons of Developing Country Participation 1,2

Hamilton, Colleen - 1988

This paper both documents the involvement of developing countries in coalitional activity in the current GATT Uruguay round thus far, and provides a rudimenting evaluation of the pros and cons of the different options for them as far as coalitional strategies are concerned. The main conclusions...

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Do Developing Countries Lose From the MFA?

Trela, Irene - 1988

This paper provides estimates of both national and global welfare costs of bilateral quotas on textiles and apparel using an applied general equilibrium model which covers bilateral quotas on exports of textiles and apparel negotiated between three major developed importing countries (the US,...

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Converging to Convergence

Kremer, Michael; Willis, Jack; You, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Empirical tests in the 1990s found little evidence of poor countries catching up with rich - unconditional convergence - since the 1960s, and divergence over longer periods. This stylized fact spurred several developments in growth theory, including AK models, poverty trap models, and the...

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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

Kremer, Michael - 2007

infrastructure, such as wells. Various traditional child health interventions have been shown to be effective in fighting diarrhea …

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Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

Chamon, Marcos - 2006

We construct and calibrate a model of the world economy in which countries' opportunities to develop depend on their trade with advanced economies. Trade opportunities in turn depend on the relative population of the advanced and developing world. As developing countries become advanced, they...

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