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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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A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...
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This paper identifies and estimates the impact of firm entry and exit on plant-level productivity in Ethiopia as part of a selection mechanism that might be driving aggregate productivity growth in cities. Specifically, the paper investigates how firms' entry and exit contribute to the pace of...
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This paper examines the linkages between urban form and city productivity, using alternative metrics for urban form and applying them to a comprehensive sample of Latin American cities. Although most of the literature has concentrated on the effects of population density (compact versus...
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