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In 2005, Ethiopia implemented a major new social transfer program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) that involves some form of work requirement in exchange for either cash or in‐kind transfers (or a mix of the two), with the composition of the transfers administratively set to be...
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This dissertation consists of three essays studying various issuesin international macroeconomics and macroeconomics.The first essay investigates the dynamics of the relative price ofnontradable to tradable goods at business cycle frequencies andfinds that it displays an emph{S}-shaped cross...
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This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia, which examine the extent to which households are able through formal and/or informal arrangements to insure their consumption from specific economic shocks and...
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La pregunta de si la integración internacional de los mercados financieros ha aumentado la cobertura del riesgo a nivel global o no, sigue siendo un tema controvertido en la literatura. Si fuera así, ¿qué deberíamos observar en los datos? La literatura enfatiza que una diversificación...
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Para moderar las caídas en la producción y en los ingresos que afectan a determinados Estados o regiones, los países y las uniones monetarias disponen de mecanismos de reparto de riesgos. Estos mecanismos funcionan estabilizando las rentas de los hogares de forma que las fluctuaciones de la...
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