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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation, and Poverty
Anderson, Kym - 2017
This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints -- were meant to partially insulate...
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Petroleum Product Pricing and Complementary Policies : Experience of 65 Developing Countries Since 2009
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Unable to cope fully with steadily climbing world oil prices since mid-2009, many of the 65 countries reviewed in this paper have progressed slowly or even reversed course in reforming pricing of petroleum products. End-user prices in July 2012 varied by two orders of magnitude across the...
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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
Gouel, Christophe - 2017
When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, public intervention is essential to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market to stabilize food...
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Infrastructure Policy : Basic Design Options
Klein, Michael U. - 2017
The paper lays out basic design options for infrastructure policy. It first sketches mechanisms to asses demand. Then it sets out a hierarchy of issues starting with choice of market structure followed by conduct regulation. Ownership options are largely a function of market structure choices....
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Infrastructure Policy : Basic Design Options
Klein, Michael U. - 2012
The paper lays out basic design options for infrastructure policy. It first sketches mechanisms to asses demand. Then it sets out a hierarchy of issues starting with choice of market structure followed by conduct regulation. Ownership options are largely a function of market structure choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096078
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Changing Norms About Gender Inequality in Education : Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2016
Using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women, this paper examines norms about gender equality in education for children and adults. Among the main findings are that gender education gap norms have changed: younger generations of women are more positive about female vs. male...
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The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages
Do, Quy-Toan - 2016
dowry payment and consanguinity. An empirical analysis using data from Bangladesh delivers robust results consistent with …
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Firm Productivity in Bangladesh Manufacturing Industries
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2016
The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data …
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Implications of WTO Agreements and Unilateral Trade Policy Reforms for Poverty in Bangladesh : Short Versus Long-Run Impacts
Annabi, Nabil - 2016
in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account … accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The study is based on the 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Bangladesh … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …
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The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers : Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent - 2019
both plausibly affected workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. These reforms include a minimum wage …
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