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The idea of the relation between the economic development level and the balance of payments position is not a new one. Yet, this idea was formalized for the first time in the early 1960s by Charles Kindl.berger in the form of the balance of payments evolution scheme. Although this is a rather...
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economy out of the poverty trap. Moreover, if the central bank is independent, the poverty trap is removed independently of …
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The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … increases. The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the income reduction …
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When labor incomes approach subsistence levels, the labor supply curve slopes outward, because the fight for survival mandates households to look for longer work hours in response to falling wage rates. We explore conditions under which near-subsistence scenarios may imply wage traps, labor...
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This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …
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This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … infrastructures, and the VAT enforcement respectively accounted for two percent, nine percent and -4 percent of poverty alleviation …
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This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … infrastructures, and the VAT enforcement respectively accounted for two percent, nine percent and -4 percent of poverty alleviation …
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