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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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Interest rate caps : the theory and the practice
Ferrari, Aurora; Masetti, Oliver; Ren, Jiemin - 2018
Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely used policy tool that is intended to lower the overall cost of credit or protect consumers from exorbitant rates. Interest rate caps come in many forms and scopes and, according to their rationale, ceilings can affect a small segment or the overall...
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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 …
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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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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
Mc Millan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
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Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth : new methods with evidence from young lives
Jones, Sam; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Anand, Paul - 2018
of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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Is 3D printing a threat to global trade? : the trade effects you didn’t hear about : World Development Report 2020 background paper
Freund, Caroline L.; Mulabdic, Alen; Ruta, Michele - 2019
In the mid-2000s, the production of hearing aids shifted almost entirely to 3D printing. Using difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods, this paper examines the effects of this shift on trade flows. The analysis finds that trade increased roughly 60 percent following the...
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Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous welfare impacts within the developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts for some of those affected, notably through the...
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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
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 evidence...
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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
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...
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