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Community Programs and Women's Participation : The Chinese Experience
Coady, David P. - 2017
on household income of a rural program in China that focuses on increasing women's economic and social participation in …
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The Impact of Vocational Schooling on Human Capital Development in Developing Countries : Evidence from China
Loyalka, Prashant Kumar - 2017
level contributes to human capital development in one of those countries?China. To fulfill this aim, a longitudinal data on … two provinces of China are used. First, estimates from instrumental variables and matching analyses show that attending … developing countries such as China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971182
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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
expenditures, as in China and India, the impact was magnified. Increases in recurrent expenditure, which were made in Brazil and … India, acted as short-term stimulants; additional public investment, as in China, appears to have had a more lasting impact … restricted the contribution of Brazilian states to fiscal stimulus. Legal prohibition of subnational borrowing induced China …
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Leading Dragons Phenomenon : New Opportunities for Catch-Up in Low-Income Countries
Chandra, Vandana - 2017
emerging market countries such as China, India and Brazil are also engaged in industrial upgrading but with a critical … difference. In particular, because of its sheer size, China has absorbed nearly all labor-intensive jobs and become the world …?s largest exporter of labor-intensive products. The current view is that China?s dominance hinders poor countries from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975353
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Do Health Sector Reforms Have Their Intended Impacts? The World Bank's Health VIII Project in Gansu Province, China
Wagstaff, Adam - 2017
-funded health sector reform project in China known as Health VIII. On the supply-side, the project combined infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966149
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Impact Evaluation of a Large-Scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2017
Lack of sanitation and poor hygiene behavior cause a tremendous disease burden among the poor. This paper evaluates the impact of the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing project in Indonesia, where about 11 percent of children have diarrhea in any two-week period and more than 33,000...
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Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis
Larson, Donald F. - 2020
In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857202
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Labor Markets and Income Generation in Rural Argentina
Verner, Dorte - 2016
This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes. Findings show that the poor allocate a lower share of their labor to farm sectors than the nonpoor do, but still around 70 percent work in agriculture, and the vast majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747882
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the way it is often measured, it has also led to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068213
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Transformational Climate Finance : Donors'Willingness to Support Deep and Transformational Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Lower-Income Countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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