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The demand for commodity insurance by developing country agricultural producers
Sarris, Alexander - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523655
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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies
Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005
"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522412
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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches
Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005
"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522518
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Are external shocks responsible for the instability of output in low income countries?
Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522520
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Commodity price uncertainty in developing countries
Dehn, Jan - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524298
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Forecasting the demand for privatized transport : what economic regulators should know and why
Trujillo, Lourdes - 2000
This overview of issues that regulators should be aware of in demand forecasting discusses challenges that come with … the decision to privatize transport, the perverse incentives introduced when privatization teams use strategic demand … forecasts to evaluate assets, the most cpmmon problems with demand forecasting, the reasons that demand forecasting matters, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524278
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Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008
"Do aggregate economic shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts, reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may transmit poverty from one generation to the next. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521058
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Does openness imply greater exposure ?
Calderán, César - 2005
"External exposure can be measured by the sensitivity of first and second moments of economic growth to openness and foreign shocks. This paper provides an empirical evaluation of external exposure using panel data methods for a worldwide sample of countries. Controlling for domestic conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522467
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Teacher shocks and student learning : evidence from Zambia
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2005
"A large literature examines the link between shocks to households and the educational attainment of children. The authors use new data to estimate the impact of shocks to teachers on student learning in mathematics and English. Using absenteeism in the 30 days preceding the survey as a measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522598
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What happens when a country does not adjust to terms of trade shocks? : The case of oil-rich Gabon
Zafar, Ali - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522931