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What Does MFN Trade Mean for India and Pakistan? Can MFN Be a Panacea?
De, Prabir - 2017
India and Pakistan, the two largest economies in South Asia, share a common border, culture and history. Despite the … benefits of proximity, the two neighbors have barely traded with each other. In 2011, trade with Pakistan accounted for less … than half a percent of India's total trade, whereas Pakistan's trade with India was 5.4 percent of its total trade. However …
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Who Uses Bottled Gas? Evidence from Households in Developing Countries
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
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State Secretaries Reform in Ukraine : Attempt to Delineate Responsibilities between Ministers and Senior Civil Servants
Balabushko, Oleksii - 2017
The relationship between politicians and senior officials has been on the reform agenda in many countries, often on the premise that balance between technical, nonpartisan appointments and ensuring the responsiveness of public servants to the policies of the current government could be improved...
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Industrial Policy, Information, and Government Capacity
Maloney, William F.; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2017
Governments are resource and bandwidth constrained, and hence need to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To do so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to redress them successfully on the other. The paper reviews...
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Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World : Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2020
Low utilization of household credit in developing countries may be partially due to religious considerations. In a randomized marketing experiment in Jordan, this paper estimates the effect of sharia-compliant loan features on demand for credit. To comply with Islamic law, the sharia-compliant...
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Moral Incentives : Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018
This paper studies the role of morality in the decision to repay debts. Using a field experiment with a large Islamic bank in Indonesia, the paper finds that moral appeals strongly increase credit card repayments. In this setting, all of the bank's late-paying credit card customers receive a...
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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017
This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...
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Islamic Inheritance Law, Son Preference and Fertility Behavior of Muslim Couples in Indonesia
Carranza, Eliana - 2017
This paper examines whether the son preference and fertility behavior of Muslim couples respond to the risk of inheritance expropriation by their extended family. According to traditional Islamic inheritance principles, only the son of a deceased man can exclude his male agnates from inheritance...
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Nutrition, Religion, and Widowhood in Nigeria
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2018
It is known that Muslim women in Nigeria have significantly worse nutritional status than their Christian counterparts. The paper first shows that this difference is explained by covariates including geographic location, ethnicity, household wealth, and women?s education. However, on accounting...
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Decentralization and Redistribution : Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin
Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2018
governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab …
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