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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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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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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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Life Insurance and Household Consumption
Hong, Jay H.; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 7, pp. 3701-30
Using life insurance holdings by age, sex, and marital status, we infer how individuals value consumption in different demographic stages. We estimate equivalence scales and bequest motives simultaneously within a fully specified model where agents face US demographics and save and purchase life...
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La capacité d'achat en matière immobilière : entre dégradation sensible et hétérogénéité croissante
Beaubrun-Diant, Kevin - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
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Quantitative Models of Wealth Inequality: A Survey
De Nardi, Mariacristina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
In the data, wealth is very unequally distributed, even more so than labor earnings and income, and the saving rate of wealthy people is high. Many dynamic models used for quantitative policy evaluation imply that once households get rich, they dissave. As a result, these models generate too...
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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving
Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...
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Higher Order Risk Attitudes, Demographics, and Financial Decisions
Noussair, Charles; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Kuilen, Gijs van de - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
large demographically representative sample, as well as in a sample of undergraduate students. Participants make pairwise …
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