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This paper investigates individuals' bypassing behavior in the health sector in Chad and the determinants of individuals' facility choice. The authors introduce a new way to measure bypassing using the patients' own knowledge of alternative health providers available to them instead of assuming...
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In 2003, after over 20 years of minimal health insurance coverage in rural areas, China launched a heavily subsidized voluntary health insurance program for rural residents. The authors use program and household survey data, as well as health facility census data, to analyze factors affecting...
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representative of the region: Egypt, Iran, West Bank/Gaza, Tunisia, and Yemen. Cross-country regression analysis using panel data for …
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The Egyptian pound depreciated sharply between 2000 and 2005, declining by 26 percent in nominal trade-weighted terms. The author investigates the effect of the large depreciation on household welfare operating through exchange rate-induced changes in consumer prices. He estimates exchange rate...
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Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which … temperatures will constrain agricultural production in Egypt. Irrigation and technology are therefore the recommended adaptation …
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affected by many of the sources of the high costs of doing business in Egypt. While the Egyptian firms are not very highly …
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East and North Africa-Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. They highlight various channels through which public infrastructure may … public infrastructure has both "flow" and "stock" effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a "stock" effect in Jordan …
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Bank credit to Egypt's private sector decreased over the last decade, despite a recapitalized banking system and high … the trough of the global crisis, capital flowed back into Egypt and deposit growth stopped being a drag on the supply side … uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak added an Egypt-specific shock that accentuated the outflow. Lending capacity …
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By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade that preceded the 2011 … compared with 418 household surveys worldwide. Hence, income inequality in Egypt is confirmed to be low while the distribution …
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This paper describes stylized facts about internal migration and the labor force in Egypt, and shows how internal … low migration in Egypt. …
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