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Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently …
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middle class size in a rigorous quantitative manner. By exploiting publicly available panel data, the expenditure associated … Nigeria. The threshold expenditure for the middle class in Nigeria is found to be 378.39 Naira per capita per day (2010 PPP …
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Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on aggregate productivity growth and gross domestic product levels. Therefore, measuring efficiency and...
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The paper provides the first consistently estimated data set on infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income countries. To do so, the authors identify three possible proxies for infrastructure investments: two are variants on gross fixed capital formation from national accounts system...
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This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 … increases consumption by $0.5, with the largest share going to expenditures on food. The paper also finds that migration …
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influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment … statistically significant but small in magnitude effect after the 2009 election. Most variation in public works expenditures is …
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conflict, an observation in line with Haiti's own history. Greater welfare expenditure (education, health, and social …
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This paper examines the short- and long-run economic impact of Egypt's energy subsidy reform in July 2014 (without and without compensating transfers for the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution) and the decline in global energy prices, as well as the long-run impact of phasing out the...
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allocation of public expenditures may intensify in ageing economies …
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rest of the sample, and higher revenues and expenditures, which are approximately evenly split between extra consumption … expenditure and extra capital expenditure. Only about a quarter of their extra revenue goes into extra consumption expenditure …, and this proportion has been lower since 2005. Fuel exporters' expenditure reacts with a lag to oil price fluctuations …
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