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Health Systems in East Asia : What Can Developing Countries Learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?

Wagstaff, Adam - 2017

The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects … on service volume and total health spending. Korea and Taiwan (China) both offer important lessons for the separation of …

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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most frequent users of the WTO-sanctioned antidumping trade policy instrument. This paper exploits newly available data to examine the pattern of actual industrial use of antidumping in...

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Laws for Fiscal Responsibility for Subnational Discipline : International Experience

Liu, Lili - 2017

Fiscal responsibility laws are institutions with which multiple governments in the same economy -- national and subnational --can commit to help avoid irresponsible fiscal behavior that could have short-term advantages to one of them but that would be collectively damaging. Coordination failures...

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A Bit Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets

Gomez Mera, Laura - 2019

of 700 firms from four emerging (or newly-emerged) economies: Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea, and South Africa. The …

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Subnational Fiscal Policy in Large Developing Countries : Some Lessons from the 2008-09 Crisis for Brazil, China and India

Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017

In response to the Great Recession of 2008, many national governments implemented fiscal stimuli packages in 2009 and 2010 to prevent further declines in aggregate demand and to jump start their economic recovery. Where subnational governments responded with fiscal contraction, as in the United...

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Female Wage Inequality in Latin American Labor Markets

Saavedra, Luz Amparo - 2017

The author uses quantile regression to document the evolution of the earnings structure of salaried and self-employed female workers in urban areas in three Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica-after structural reforms were introduced. The analysis covers pre- and...

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Fiscal Management in Federal Democracies : Argentina and Brazil

Dillinger, William - 2017

In shifting to decentralized public finances, a country's central government faces certain fiscal management problems. First, during and soon after the transition, unless it reduces pending or increases its own tax resources, the central government tends to have higher deficits as it shifts...

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Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards : Stumbling Block Evidence from Mercosur

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

There is not yet consensus in the trade agreements literature as to whether preferential liberalization leads to more or less multilateral liberalization. However, research thus far has focused mostly on tariff measures of import protection. This paper develops more comprehensive measures of...

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Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Lustig, Nora - 2017

Between 2000 and 2010, the Gini coefficient declined in 13 of 17 Latin American countries. The decline was statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main...

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Youth Employment Transitions in Latin America

Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2017

Using panel data from labor force surveys in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, the paper maps out young people's paths from the classroom to the work place during the 1980s through the early 2000s. By decomposing transition matrices into propensity to move and rate of separation and estimating...

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