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MTEFs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco; Mills, Zachary; Verhoeven, Marijn - 2013
In the last two decades more than 120 countries have adopted a version of a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). These are budget institutions whose rationale it is to enable the central government to make credible multi-year fiscal commitments. This paper analyzes a newly-collected dataset...
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Estimating Global Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Projects : Applications in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
Iimi, Atsushi - 2012
. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552792
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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi
Wagstaff, Adam; Nguyen, Nga Nguyet - 2013
By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …
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Determinants of international emergency aid : humanitarian need only?
Fink, Guenther - 2009
"The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that political and strategic factors play a crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394133
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How can donors help build global public goods in health ?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2009
"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394201
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Is the developing world catching up? : global convergence and national rising dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2008
"The present study uses the GIDD, a CGE-microsimulation model for Global Income Distribution Dynamics, to understand the ex-ante dynamics of global income distribution. Three main robust results emerge. First, under a set of realistic assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521026
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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2008
"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521056
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The data chase : what's out there on trade costs and nontariff barriers ?
Bagai, Shweta - 2006
"Trade costs and nontariff barriers are at the forefront of discussions on competitiveness and expanding trade opportunities for developing countries. This paper provides a summary overview of data and indicators relevant to these issues and has been informed by work underway at the World Bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522161
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Doha merchandise trade reform : what's at stake for developing countries ?
Anderson, Kym - 2006
"This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute the poorest households in developing countries but are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522212
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Poverty impacts of a WTO agreement : synthesis and overview
Hertel, Thomas Warren - 2005
"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. Intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreement pays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522443