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The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon : The Role of Tax Policy
Emini, Christian Arnault; Cockburn, John; Decaluwe, Bernard - 2005
The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index falling from 53.3 percent of inhabitants in 1996 to 40.2...
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How Much Teachers Know and How Much it Matters in Class : Analyzing Three Rounds of Subject-Specific Test Score Data of Indonesian Students and Teachers
de Ree, Joppe - 2017
Indonesia. First, through detailed inspection of teacher-level responses to test questions, the paper concludes that subject … matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation … increase in teachers'subject matter knowledge seem to be achievable medium-term goals for education policy making in Indonesia …
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Population Pressures, Migration, and the Returns to Human Capital and Land : Insights from Indonesia
Liu, Yanyan - 2017
population density and its impacts on household outcomes. The analysis uses panel data from Indonesia combined with district …-level demographic data. Historically, Indonesia has adapted to land constraints through a mix of agricultural intensification, expansion … responses. In contemporary Indonesia, the paper finds that human capital determines the effect of increased population density …
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Improving Educational Quality Through Enhancing Community Participation : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia
Pradhan, Menno Prasad - 2017
subsequently improving learning outcomes, in public primary schools in Indonesia. All study schools were randomly allocated to …
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Using the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Technique to Analyze Learning Outcomes Changes Over Time : An Application to Indonesia's Results in PISA Mathematics
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2017
Indonesia's score in PISA mathematics. Between 2003 and 2006, Indonesia's score increased by 30 points, or 0.3 of a standard …
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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants
McKenzie, David J. - 2007
Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing countries, with the probability of migration peaking in...
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Nonfarm Activity and Rural Income Inequality : A Case Study of Two Provinces in China
Zhu, Nong - 2006
Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...
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Method Matters : Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria and Rwanda
Cullen, Claire - 2020
This paper analyzes the magnitude and predictors of misreporting on intimate partner and sexual violence in Nigeria and Rwanda. Respondents were randomly assigned to answer questions using one of three survey methods: an indirect method (list experiment) that gives respondents anonymity; a...
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Local Inequality and Project Choice : Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
Araujo, M. Caridad - 2016
This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model...
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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005
We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a...
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