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Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi
Kilic, Talip - 2020
score, was significantly lower for flood-affected households. Although access to social safety nets increased food …
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Enduring Impacts of Aid Quality on Job Choices : The Case of the 2004 Tsunami in Aceh
Nose, Manabu - 2017
aggregate shock. In a natural experiment set-up, it shows widening income inequality after the tsunami for income losses to the …
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Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier Eduardo - 2017
Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. Although there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about the long-term...
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Schools Meals, Educational Achievement and School Competition : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Vermeersch, Christel - 2017
This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in a developing country setting. The paper uses data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school...
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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783436
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies
Laborde, David - 2019
In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food price spikes on domestic prices and to lessen the burden of adjustment on vulnerable population groups. While individual countries can succeed at insulating their domestic...
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Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in an Open Economy : Evidence from Canada
Tsoungui Belinga, Vincent De Paul - 2017
What is the impact of fiscal policy shocks on key macroeconomic variables in Canada? This question triggered renewed interest in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Great Recession. Indeed, as in many advanced economies, fiscal policy in Canada following the recession started with an expansionary phase...
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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017
sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock …
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Funding vs. Real Economy Shock : The Impact of the 2007-2009 Crisis on Small Firms'Credit Availability
Berg, Gunhild - 2017
domestic demand. Therefore, a pure supply side shock con be contrasted with a real economy shock that hit exactly when the bank …'s funding position strengthened again. The paper finds that during the funding shock (potential) borrowers are discouraged from … shock, in contrast, reduces the approval likelihood for SME loans in particular, while agro and micro loans are considerably …
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Macroeconomic Effects of Terms-of-Trade Shocks : The Case of Oil-Exporting Countries
Spatafora, Nikola - 2017
The authors investigate the impact on economic growth and development of long-run movements in the external terms of trade, with special reference to the experience of 18 oil-exporting countries between 1973 and 1989. They argue that this sample approximates a controlled experiment for examining...
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