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In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania …
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Albania's radical farmland distribution is credited with averting an economic crisis and social unrest during the … plots are needed to lay the foundation for greater rural productivity. This paper uses farm-level data from the 2005 Albania … potential of Albania's rural economy and, if and when needed, the ability to conduct consolidation in a cost-effective and …
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This paper empirically investigates whether households affected by income shocks cope by reducing human capital investments. The analysis uses Crisis Response Surveys conducted in Armenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Turkey during 2009 and 2010. A propensity score matching technique is...
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The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education outcomes, particularly in developing and transition countries where institutional deficiencies can distort incentives. This paper investigates the relationship between an...
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Albania is among the most vulnerable countries to external energy shocks and climatic conditions, because of its high …
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.36 percentage point reduction in average tariff equivalent trade costs. Applying this figure to the value of Albania's non …
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In a context of fiscal consolidation and the need to deliver on a structural reform agenda, policy makers in Albania … and poverty in Albania, assessing the individual and combined effects of taxes and public social spending. The findings … show that the fiscal system in Albania plays a positive role in reducing inequality. Yet, it has a moderate poverty …
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Few economic ideas are as intuitive as the notion that increasing investment is the best way to raise future output. This idea was the basis for the theory quot;capital fundamentalism.quot; Under this view, differences in national stocks of capital were the primary determinants of differences in...
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This survey of the state of research on relations between health and economic development discusses first research on how development affects health and then research on how health affects development. Central assumptions include: (A) Health is produced by households, along with a number of...
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The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory propertyy right that allows the inventor to appropriate part of the returns from his invention. In developing countries, two types of considerations need to be addressed. First,...
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