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E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China

Luo, Xubei; Wang, Yue; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2019

China has quickly become the largest e-commerce market in the world. By matching a nationally representative China Family Panel Studies survey with county-level e-commerce information obtained from Alibaba, this paper examines how e-commerce development has shaped household consumption growth in...

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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World : Evidence From China

de Brauw, Alan; Giles, John - 2012

In this paper, the authors examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for...

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Local Elections and Consumption Insurance : Evidence from Chinese Villages

Gan, Li; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yao, Yang - 2012

While the literature on consumption insurance is growing fast, little research has been conducted on how rural consumption insurance is affected by democracy. In this paper the authors examine how consumption insurance of Chinese rural residents is affected if the local leader is democratically...

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On the Fungibility of Spending and Earnings : Evidence from Rural China and Tanzania

Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei - 2013

its acquisition. The policy implications are real, bearing for example on the choice between employment guarantee schemes …

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The Economic Consequences of Health Shocks

Wagstaff, Adam - 2012

While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...

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Estimating Household Responses to Trade Reforms : Net Consumers and Net Producers in Rural Mexico

Porto, Guido G. - 2012

This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. It focuses on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets adjust....

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The Patterns and Determinants of Household Welfare Growth in Jordan : 2002-2010

Mansour, Wael - 2013

. In addition, the analysis identifies rent, access to human capital services, and more importantly employment in the …

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Determining the Caloric Content of Food Consumed away from Home : An Application to the Construction of a Cost-of-Basic-Needs Poverty Line

Himelein, Kristen - 2022

Food purchased and consumed away from home is a growing share of household expenditure in developing countries. Therefore, measuring the monetary value and estimating the caloric equivalent of these meals are increasingly important for the accurate calculation of a cost-of-basic-needs poverty...

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SME Contributions to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth in the Arab World

Nasr, Sahar; Rostom, Ahmed - 2014

employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in … policies across sectors to create productive employment and promote economic growth. Supporting innovation and enhancing access …

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Morocco's Growth and Employment Prospects : Public Policies to Avoid the Middle-Income Trap

Pinto Moreira, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper studies Morocco's growth and employment prospects in the context of a new growth model aimed at allowing the … inequality. The third part attempts to quantify the medium-run effects of these policies on growth, employment, and unemployment … need to implement far-reaching reforms, to increase growth to a range of 6-7 percent and improve employment creation to …

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