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Access to mobile phone has increased substantially over the last decade in sub-Saharan Africa. The evidence suggests that increased use of mobile phones in the region has upgraded the market prices received by producers for their cash crops, but so far there is limited knowledge on labour market...
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This paper presents a descriptive analysis on the ownership of different types of technology - both agricultural machinery and information technology - within households in rural areas of Vietnam. We find that there has been little development in the ownership of agricultural machinery, but a...
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In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...
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The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by...
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New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive...
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Myanmar is facing climate change (CC) induced changes to the productivity of their critically important rice sector … newly developed dynamically recursive 2021-40 computable general equilibrium model for Myanmar to analyse seven current and …
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Myanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced … military and children performing hazardous work. Moreover, Myanmar faces a rapidly closing window of opportunity within which … model for Myanmar to analyse the economic and household income distribution impacts of a combined child work elimination and …
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characterized by relative weakness in revenue collection, budget execution, and long-term sustainability. Myanmar is therefore in … need of comprehensive public finance reform. Two top priorities of the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan are to …. In this paper, we analyse the scope for fiscal tax reform to finance future Myanmar Union budget deficits and lower the …
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the working conditions of workers in the Myanmar manufacturing sector. Using a model of job demands and job resources, we …
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Myanmar's economy has experienced political and economic transformations since 2011 by means of diverse economic … Myanmar. The paper begins by providing a brief scene-setting context for the electricity sector in Myanmar and discusses its …
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