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This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … primary or only language and who can write a letter in Hebrew earn about 20 percent more than those who do neither … earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking …
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The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is one of the most successful stories of economic transition and integration among developing countries. Strong rates of economic growth since the early 1990s have been fueled by increased trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the subregion. This...
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Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam have agreed to comply with the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme …
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Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use 'lab-in-the-field experiments' in Cambodian villages to study solidarity in established and newly resettled communities. Both communities are part of a land distribution project...
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land struggles in Cambodia. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, my findings suggest that land rights activism in … Cambodia has undergone a gendered re-framing process. Reasoning that women tend to use non-violent means of contestation and …In Kambodscha sind Aktivistinnen trotz tief verwurzelter Geschlechternormen und Vorstellungen von weiblicher …
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Decentralisation and local economic development (LED) are two major development strategies that both have an explicit or inexplicit focus on poverty reduction. Political decentralisation offers principally two channels that allow to better orient policies to the needs of the poor, either through...
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Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use "lab-in-the-field experiments" in Cambodian villages to study social cohesion in established and newly resettled communities. Both communities are part of a land distribution...
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This paper examines Cambodia's socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country's economic …
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Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years but still remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia …. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to … literature, it appears that reduced rural poverty in Cambodia would have to rest on two pillars. Firstly, improvements in …
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structures can effectively facilitate voice in fragile states. Cambodia's unusual social protection trajectory offers some …
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