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Measuring Financial Protection in Health
Wagstaff, Adam - 2012
to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in … household being above and below the poverty line. The paper provides an overview of the methods and issues arising in each case …
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Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Mexican Households : The Effect of the Doha Development Agenda
Nicita, Alessandro - 2012
estimated through a CGE model (GTAP) and then mapped into the welfare function of the household using household survey data. The … empirical approach the author uses aims to measure the impact of Doha implementation by tracing changes in the household prices … of goods and factors and their impact on household welfare, taking particular account the role of domestic price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554165
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Bundling Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries : The Case of Peru
Chong, Alberto; Hentschel, Jesko; Saavedra, Jaime - 2013
Using panel data for Peru for 1994-2000, the authors find that when households receive two, or more services jointly, the welfare increases as measured by changes in consumption are larger than when services are provided separately. The increases appear to be more than proportional, as F-tests...
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When Do Donors Trust Recipient Country Systems?
Knack, Stephen - 2012
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. The target is premised on a view that country systems are strengthened when donors trust recipients to manage aid funds, but undermined when donors manage aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552124
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Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Ishihara, Yoichiro - 2012
Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness management and delivery of aid bears serious consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552141
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Aid, Growth, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics
Devarajan, Shantayanan; Go, Delfin S.; Page, John - 2012
Devarajan, Go, Page, Robinson, and Thierfelder argued that if aid is about the future and recipients are able to plan consumption and investment decisions optimally over time, then the potential problem of an aid-induced appreciation of the real exchange rate (Dutch disease) does not occur. In...
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Aid, Service Delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an Economy-wide Framework
Bourguignon, Francois; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina; Lofgren, Hans - 2012
In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require careful planning of the sector allocation and sequencing of public spending. Especially...
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Does IDA Engage in Defensive Lending?
Geginat, Carolin; Kraay, Aart - 2012
Multilateral development banks are frequently accused of "defensive lending," the practice of extending new loans purely in order to ensure that existing loans are repaid. This paper empirically examine this hypothesis using data on lending by and repayments to the International Development...
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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services
Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from market opening. The authors argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552899
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Does Aid Help Improve Economic Institutions?
Coviello, Decio; Islam, Roumeen - 2012
Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect institutions directly. In theory, these effects may or may not work in the same direction as those on investment. The authors examine the effect of aid on economic institutions and find...
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