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How Many Dimensions Do We Trade in? Product Space Geometry and Latent Comparative Advantage
Arvis, Jean - 2013
the structure of the trade matrix. The model uses non-linear techniques to identify the Product Space from the 2010 export … of latent comparative advantage, which has practical country specific applications, relevant for "trade competitiveness … (extensive margin). The data suggests that the degree of overlap between latent and revealed advantage is a metric of "trade …
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Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives
Jones, Sam - 2018
Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, associated with a narrowing of the outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926786
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Who Benefits from Better Roads and Why? Mixed Methods Analysis of the Gender-Disaggregated Impacts of a Rural Roads Project in Vietnam
Mannava, Aneesh - 2020
collection. The paper finds that roads improve economic opportunities for agricultural production and trade: all households … increase agricultural trade. Yet only households headed by men capitalize on these opportunities, experiencing an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836300
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Sophisticated Policy with Naive Agents : Habit Formation and Piped Water in Vietnam
Do, Quy-Toan - 2020
Utilities the world over grapple with how to set prices to recover fixed costs. This paper considers optimal utility provision and pricing when consumers form habits without being aware of it. Data from a multi-year pricing experiment among nearly 1500 rural piped water customers in Vietnam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837587
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Learning from Power Sector Reform Experiences : The Case of Vietnam
Lee, Alan David - 2020
Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also had some positive impact. By the late 1990s, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840290
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Prices, Engel Curves, and Time-Space Deflation : Impacts on Poverty and Inequality in Vietnam
Gibson, John - 2017
Many developing countries lack spatially disaggregated price data. Some analysts use "no-price" methods by using a food Engel curve to derive the deflator as that needed for nominally similar households to have equal food shares in all regions and time periods. This method cannot be tested in...
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Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam War Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during the early stages of life on later-life health. This paper contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956218
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Antidiscrimination Law and Shared Prosperity : An Analysis of the Legal Framework of Six Economies and Their Impact on the Equality of Opportunities of Ethnic, Religious, and Sexua...
Panter, Elaine Rene Elizabeth - 2017
This paper looks at the structural marginalization of ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities in six pilot economies (Bulgaria, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Vietnam) and proposes a new methodology for collecting cross-country comparable data on antidiscrimination legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956737
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
recently that progress has slowed with an economic environment of lackluster global trade, not enough jobs coupled with skills …
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The Economic Case for Education in Vietnam
Patrinos, Harry A. - 2018
Education is central to the development of human capital. Vietnam has made significant progress. This paper reviews existing research on the returns to education and makes the case for investment in schooling. In Vietnam, the returns to schooling are 10 percent overall. The returns to primary...
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