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Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences: Paternalism under International Capital Mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011
This paper deals with tax-policy responses to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Earlier research on optimal paternalism typically abstracts from capital mobility. If capital is mobile between countries, it may no longer be possible for national governments to control domestic savings via capital...
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The Impact of Microfinance and its Role in Easing Poverty of Rural Households: Estimations from Pakistan
Ghalib, Asad K.; Malki, Issam; Imai, Katsushi S. - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2011
This study examines if household access to microfinance reduces poverty in Pakistan, and if so, to what extent and … across which dimensions of well-being by taking account of the multi-dimensional aspect of poverty. The study draws on first … participating households, that is, the poverty reducing-effects were observed and statistically significant on a number of …
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Measuring Households' Vulnerability to Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks – the case of Bangladesh
Azam, Md. Shafiul; Imai, Katsushi S. - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
that rural vulnerability in Bangladesh is mainly poverty induced rather than risk induced. Around 78 per cent all who are …. Overall vulnerability in rural areas is estimated to be 50 per cent. The categorization of poverty into transient and chronic … poverty is even more insightful. The study finds that those without education or agricultural households are likely to be the …
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Remittances, Growth and Poverty: New Evidence from Asian Countries
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Ali, Abdilahi; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2011
. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …
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Microfinance and Poverty -A Macro Perspective
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Thapa, Ganesh; Annim, … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2010
Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries over the last five decades, using dynamic panel models. Although the results are mixed, depending on the specification and variables used, there is some evidence favouring a...
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Remittances, growth and poverty: New evidence from Asian countries
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Ali, Abdilahi; … - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 3, pp. 524-538
. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …
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Vulnerability and Poverty in Bangladesh
Azam, Md. Shafiul; Imai, Katsushi S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that those without education or …
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We have found significant and negative effects of the household participation in RPW and … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …
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Agriculture, Markets and Poverty - A Comparative Analysis of Laos and Cambodia
Gaiha, Raghav; Azam, Md Shafiul; Annim, Samuel; Imai, … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
in achieving this goal. As these are macro relationships, richer insights into determinants of poverty are obtained by …
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Pro-poor growth, poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam
Kang, Woojin; Imai, Katsushi S. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 5, pp. 527-539
draws on three rounds of national household surveys in 2002, 2004 and 2006. It is first observed that the pace of poverty … growth on poverty is estimated to have been greater if inequality remained constant. It is also noted that the impacts of … economic growth on poverty vary across different ethnic groups. Finally, regression decompositions of within inequality have …
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