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Sugar Prices, Labour Income and Poverty in Brazil

Krivonos, Ekaterina - 2006

This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on … prices. They then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …

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Managing Quantity, Quality, and Timing in Indian Cane Sugar Production : Ex Post Marketing Permits or Ex Ante Production Contracts?

Patlolla, Sandhyarani - 2017

Private sugar processors in Andhra Pradesh, India use an unusual form of vertical coordination. They issue' permits' to … market under existing government regulations in the sugar sector, which include a binding price floor for cane and the …

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Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity : Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment Among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters

Dillon, Andrew - 2017

Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and choice of job tasks among workers by reducing physical capacity. This study identifies the...

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Policies, Prices, and Poverty : The Sugar, Vegetable Oil, and Flour Industries in Senegal

Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly - 2017

examined here?sugar, vegetable oil, and flour?account for roughly 14 percent of the consumption basket of the poor, so … taken place recently, but consumers have continued to pay above world prices for sugar and edible oil in 2014. The paper …

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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?

Roberts, Mark - 2017

Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...

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Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia

Apella, Ignacio - 2018

The objective of this paper is to study the evolution of the incidence and profile of nonstandard workers in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the past two decades. The analysis of the profile of this group of workers focuses on three key...

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The Rise of China and Labor Market Adjustments in Latin America

Artuc, Erhan - 2018

This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study proposes an index to measure the impact on trade, which suggests sizable effects, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index...

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Measuring Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : Methodological Considerations When Estimating an Empirical Regional Poverty Line

Castaneda, Raul - 2017

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date urban official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18...

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Business Cycles in the Eastern Caribbean Economies : The Role of Fiscal Policy and Interest Rates

Carneiro, Francisco - 2017

This paper analyzes the business cycle characteristics of the economies of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States using a model of a small open economy subject to interest rate and fiscal expenditure shocks and financial frictions. The paper shows that macroeconomic aggregates in this...

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Before and after the Global Financial Crisis : Evaluating the Caribbean's Synchronization with Global Engines of Growth

Kouame, Auguste Tano - 2017

In spite of the United States' recovery, most Caribbean nations are still struggling in the aftermath of the 2007?08 global financial crisis. This paper examines this slow growth recovery through the analysis of how the Caribbean's growth relates to that of key drivers of the global economy. The...

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