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Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide...
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We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
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We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and...
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We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many … studies' has established certain patterns that seem common across countries and trade liberalization episodes, and may hence …
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We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross … countries that trade more have less child labor. At the cross-country means, the data suggest an openness elasticity of child …. When we control for the endogeneity of trade and for cross-country income differences, the openness elasticity of child …
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Although many developing countries have experienced growing income inequality and an increase in the relative demand for skilled workers during the 1980s, the sources of this trend remain a puzzle. This paper examines whether investment and adoption of skill-biased technology have contributed to...
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We present a model of growth and technology transfer based on the idea that technologies are specific to particular combinations of inputs. We argue that this model is more realistic than the usual specification, in which an improvement in any technique for producing a given good improves all...
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also discusses perceptions about international trade in over 40 countries at different levels of development, including …This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its … perceptions on trade's overall benefits for the economy, trade's effect on the livelihood of workers through wages and jobs, and …
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characteristics into two groups, those primarily important for agriculture and those primarily important for trade, we find that the … agriculture variables have relatively more explanatory power in countries that developed early and the trade variables have …
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We study the effects of a positive export shock on labor allocation between the informal, microenterprise sector and … the formal firm sector in a low-income country. The U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement led to large reductions in U … and formal sectors. This gap and the aggregate labor productivity gain from the export-induced reallocation of workers …
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