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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low Income Households in the Philippines : Impending Human Capital Crisis

Cho, Yoonyoung - 2021

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a dramatic disruption in the delivery of education and health services … in the Philippines. With school closures and challenges in the delivery of distance learning, students learning losses … are expected to be enormous. Meanwhile, the health system is strained under the challenge of management of Coronavirus …

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Croatian Women and COVID-19 Pandemic : The Coronavirus Is Not Gender-Blind

World Bank Group - 2021

High risk that gender inequalities will widen during and after the pandemic is gains in women's and girls' accumulation … more likely to be exposed to the virus. The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis didn't unravel new discrepancies …

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Algeria Economic Monitor, Fall 2020 : Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic, Engaging Structural Reforms

World Bank Group - 2020

establishes the context for the unprecedented developments of 2020 related to the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Chapter … two details the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and concurrent crash in oil prices on various dimensions of Algeria …

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Tajikistan Country Economic Update, Fall 2020 : Economic Slowdown Amid the Pandemic

World Bank Group - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant adverse impact on the Tajik economy. Real GDP growth slowed to 4.2 percent year … with financial and in-kind aid to help Tajikistan contain the pandemic's impact. In an effort to ameliorate the economic … established an interagency task force to address health challenges emerging from the pandemic …

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Household Credit in the New Europe: Lending Boom or Sustainable Growth?

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Mucci, Fabio; Revoltella, Debora - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Retail lending grew very fast in the New Europe region in the last years, prompting a debate on whether such a rapid growth can be considered sustainable. This paper investigates the main determinants of retail lending growth throughout the region. It tries to identify episodes of credit boom...

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Policy Action in Private Occupational Pensions in Japan since the Economic Crisis of the 1990s

Health, Ministry of; Labour; Welfare; Japan; Sakamoto, … - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2010

The public pension system of Japan provides coverage for all, irrespective of occupation and income. Corporate pension plans provide additional benefits over the public pension in order to meet the diversified financial needs in retirement and play a key role in enriching people‘s life after...

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Intertemporal Consumption and Credit Constraints: Does Total Expenditure Respond to an Exogenous Shock to Credit?

Leth-Petersen, Søren - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 1080-1103

There is continuing controversy over the importance of credit constraints. This paper investigates whether total household expenditure and debt is affected by an exogenous increase in access to credit provided by a credit market reform that enabled Danish house owners to use housing equity as...

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Assessing Default Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans

Antolín, Pablo; Payet, Stéphanie; Yermo, Juan - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2010

This paper assesses the relative performance of different investment strategies for different structures of the payout phase. In particular, it looks at whether the specific glide-path of life-cycle investment strategies and the introduction of dynamic features in the design of default...

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CONSUMER CREDIT IN AUSTRALIA DURING THE 20TH CENTURY

Eng, Pierre van der - College of Business and Economics, Australian National … - 2008

This article surveys the growth of consumer credit in Australia during the 20th century, particularly after World War II. Until the 1970s, the regulation of Australia’s financial market caused formal consumer credit to be provided mainly by finance companies under hire-purchase contracts,...

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National Annuity Markets: Features and Implications

Rusconi, Rob - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2008

This paper describes a number of national annuity markets, the types of products typically available, the demand for these products, the value for money on offer and the dynamics of the supply side. It explores supply and demand characteristics, asking what the main forces are that drive these...

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