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The Elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, Ten Years on
Cadot, Olivier - 2016
This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to regain some of the lost ground since the mid-1990s....
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Export Promotion and Firm Entry into and Survival in Export Markets
Lederman, Daniel - 2017
Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means to stimulate aggregate export growth. But the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export promotion agencies in helping entry into exporting....
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Travel Channel Meets Discovery Channel or How Tourism Can Encourage Better Export Performance and Diversification in Nepal
Reis, Jose Guilherme - 2017
Entering and successfully surviving in export markets is a costly process for firms. The process involves learning about the existence of foreign demand, "discovering" production costs of exportable goods, building up reputation, succeeding in product branding to reduce competitive pressures and...
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Chinese Firms'Entry to Export Markets : The Role of Foreign Export Spillovers
Mayneris, Florian - 2017
In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive margin of trade) is debated. Using panel data from Chinese customs for 1997-2007, the capacity for Chinese domestic firms to begin exporting new varieties to new markets is...
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Identifying Supply-Side Constraints to Export Performance in Ecuador : An Exercise With Investment Climate Survey Data
Correa, Paulo Guilherme - 2016
The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to investigate supply-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the Heckman selection model to estimate the probability...
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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …
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Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives
Jones, Sam - 2018
of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Melecky, Martin - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …
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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Datt, Gaurav - 2018
methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility : Theory and Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …
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