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impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …
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This study employed the Ricardian approach to measure the economic impacts of climate change on farm net revenue in Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which factors influence the variability of farm net revenues....
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's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity … productivity effects were modest, total employment generated by the program (but not employment in irrigation-related activities …) significantly increased productivity, suggesting alleviation of liquidity constraints and implicit insurance provision rather than …
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This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … observables, including sector, region, employment, total factor productivity (TFP), capital intensity, wages, support from …
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entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …
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goods will likely lead to small losses to Armenia primarily due to a loss of productivity from lost varieties of …
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corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects of this "bribe tax" on productivity are compared to the consequences of red … tax appears to have a negative impact on firm-level productivity, while the effect of the time tax is insignificant. At …
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Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective preferential access for the United States to China's markets breaks multilateral rules against discrimination? The answer depends on how China implements the agreement....
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Although emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the global recession a decade ago relatively well, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the room for monetary and fiscal policies to respond to...
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Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
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