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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children Under Doi Moi

Wagstaff, Adam - 2017

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...

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Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance : Evidence from India

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2017

The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more … permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates thesignificant impact of a neglected factor: India's policy reforms in …

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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?

Dimaranan, Betina - 2016

twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming … India also begins to integrate into global production chains and expands exports of manufactures, there seems to be …Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different …

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Political Economy of Reform

Khemani, Stuti - 2017

This paper reviews the literature relevant to understanding political constraints to economic reforms. Reform refers to changes in government policies or institutional rules because status quo policies and institutions are not working well to achieve the goals of economic well-being and...

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An Evaluation of the 2014 Subsidy Reforms in Morocco and a Simulation of Further Reforms

Verme, Paolo - 2017

Under increasing budget pressure, Morocco carried out an extensive set of subsidy reforms in 2014 and is planning for further reforms for 2015?2017, which will eliminate most consumers'subsidies. This paper evaluates (ex post) the 2014 reforms and simulates (ex ante) the impact on household...

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The Post-Crisis Growth Slowdown in Emerging Economies and the Role of Structural Reforms

Qureshi, Zia - 2017

This paper constructs indicators of structural bottlenecks arising from barriers to open markets, obstacles to business operations, and constraints to access to finance. Empirical evidence from a sample of 30 emerging economies indicates that barriers to open markets and access to finance are...

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Learning Dynamics and Support for Economic Reforms : Why Good News Can Be Bad

van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2017

Support for economic reforms has often shown puzzling dynamics: many reforms that began successfully lost public support. This paper shows that learning dynamics can rationalize this paradox because the process of revealing reform outcomes is an example of sampling without replacement. This...

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Matching Reforms to Institutional Realities : A Framework for Assessing Social Service Delivery Reform Strategies in Developing Countries

Fiszbein, Ariel - 2017

The paper is based on the premise that effective institutional reforms for service delivery require a carefully-considered institutional "fitting" process as opposed to transplantation of "international best practices." The paper asks how the specific institutional contexts of a given country...

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Political Ideology, Quality at Entry and the Success of Economic Reform Programs

Smets, Lodewijk - 2017

This study investigates how government ideology matters for the success of World Bank economic policy loans, which typically support market-liberalizing reforms. A simple model predicts that World Bank staff will invest more effort in designing an economic policy loan when faced with a left-wing...

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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform

Dollar, David - 2016

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of...

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