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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo offer a coherent vision for an economics of poverty and antipoverty policy. Their economics is grounded in an effort to understand the economic and psychological complexities in the lives of poor people, informed by social experiments and field observations....
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There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect … modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro and micro … lens indicates considerable heterogeneity in the welfare impacts of trade openness, with both gainers and losers among the …
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There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect … impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and micro approaches … considerable heterogeneity in the welfare impacts of trade openness, with both gainers and losers among the poor. The author …
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inflation hurt the poor. External trade had little short-term impact.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development …
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The paper formalizes and tests the hypothesis that greater exposure to big shocks induces stronger societal responses for adaptation and protection from future big shocks. Support for this hypothesis is found in various strands of the literature and in new empirical tests using cross-country...
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There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect … structural modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro …. Additionally the micro lens indicates considerable heterogeneity in the welfare impacts of trade openness, with both gainers and …
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