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Creating a Poverty Map for Azerbaijan
Baschieri, Angela; Falkingham, Jane; Hornby, Duncan - 2012
indices, using existing census data. This paper develops a set of poverty maps for Azerbaijan that can be used by different …"Poverty maps"-that is, graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare-are being increasingly … used to geographically target scarce resources. But the development of detailed poverty maps in many low resource settings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554248
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Funding vs. Real Economy Shock : The Impact of the 2007-2009 Crisis on Small Firms' Credit Availability
Berg, Gunhild; Kirschenmann, Karolin - 2012
-2009 crisis on credit availability for small firms. The paper uses data from AccessBank Azerbaijan which was affected in its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552134
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Azerbaijan???s Household Survey Data : Explaining Why Inequality is So Low
Ersado, Lire - 2012
While the Azerbaijan household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data satisfy most empirical regularities expected … country, and is extremely low even with the standard of countries generally considered as most equal in the world. Azerbaijan …. The objective of this paper is to investigate why inequality measures are unusually low in the Azerbaijan household survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553831
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Black Hole or Black Gold? The Impact of Oil and Gas Prices on Indonesia's Public Finances
Agustina, Cut Dian R.D.; Arze del Granado, Javier; … - 2012
Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the impact of higher international oil prices on the Indonesian government's fiscal position in 2008 and beyond. It analyzes the interactions between government revenues and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552509
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Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2012
This paper attempts to explain the determinants of the propensity to armed struggle and the probability of participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data. While grievance appears to be pervasive among individuals and communities in the region and can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552643
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Efficiency and Equity Implications of Oil Windfalls in Brazil
Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2013
Large oil reserves off the coast of Brazil may substantially increase the country s oil revenue in the future. A natural resource "curse" could be the consequence if an appropriate share of the oil revenue is not invested. This issue is addressed in this paper for Brazil both theoretically and...
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Fungibility and the Impact of Development Assistance : Evidence from Vietnam's Health Sector
Wagstaff, Adam - 2012
How can the impact of aid be estimated in the presence of fungibility? And how far does fungibility reduce its benefits? These questions are analyzed in a context where a donor wants to target its efforts on a specific sector and specific geographic areas. A traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552243
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Public Expenditure and Consumption Volatility
Herrera, Santiago; Vincent, Bruno - 2012
Recent estimates of the welfare cost of consumption volatility find that it is significant in developing nations, where it may reach an equivalent of reducing consumption by 10 percent per year. Hence, examining the determinants of consumption volatility is of utmost relevance. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552418
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Assessing the Impact of Public Spending on Growth : An Empirical Analysis for Seven Fast Growing Countries
Moreno-Dodson, Blanca - 2012
The goal of this paper is to understand better, at the empirical level, how public spending contributes to growth by focusing on both the level and composition of public spending, in connection to the dynamics of GDP per capita growth. It attempts to answer two specific questions: (a) What are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552454
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Government Expenditures on Education, Health, and Infrastructure : A Naive Look at Levels, Outcomes, and Efficiency
Estache, Antonio; Gonzalez, Marianela; Trujillo, Lourdes - 2012
All interested parties seem to agree that it is important to be able to monitor public sector performance at the sectoral level, but most current work based on multi-country databases does not lend itself to country-specific conclusions. This is due to a large extent to major data limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552667