Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 572
Cover Image
Distributional impacts of the 2008 global food price spike in Vietnam
McKay, Andrew D.; Tarp, Finn - 2014
Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial impact on rural farmers. This is based however...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235861
Cover Image
Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in Vietnam
Tarp, Finn - 2014
Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial impact on rural farmers. This is based however...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040318
Cover Image
Reconciliation once and for all : economic impact evaluation and social cost benefit analysis
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Moreda, Adela - 2017
There is a debate in the literature on the appropriate methods and metrics for evaluating the economic impacts of tourism investments. Available analytical techniques include input-output modelling, computable general equilibrium modelling, cost benefit analysis, expenditure-based methods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785007
Cover Image
Income tax flattening: does it help to reduce the shadow economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269186
Cover Image
Income tax flattening : does it help to reduce the shadow economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860712
Cover Image
Economic aspects of peacekeeping in Iraq : what went wrong?
Yousif, Bassam - In: The Economics of peace and security journal : Eps journal 1 (2006) 2, pp. 24-30
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008649061
Cover Image
The Impact of Credit Union Financial Intermediation on Economic Growth : A Multi-Country Analysis
Adusei, Michael - 2013
The paper investigates the relationship between credit union (CU) financial intermediation and economic growth using seventeen-year data (1995-2011) from 12 CU countries. Using the panel Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation technique, the study finds that there is a statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084489
Cover Image
A Structural Evaluation of a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative
Kaboski, Joseph P. - 2016
This paper uses a structural model to understand, predict, and evaluate the impact of an exogenous micro credit intervention program, the Thai Million Baht Village Fund program. We model household decisions in the face of borrowing constraints, income uncertainty, and high-yield indivisible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009351
Cover Image
Can an Agenda for Economic Development Be Premised on an Aggressive Program Built around Microfinance?
Obrimah, Oghenovo A. - 2019
around an aggressive foray into provision of Microfinance is more likely to fail, than to succeed. The Microfinance strategy … any supply-side or income multiplier effect from Microfinance, and there is not arrival at any beneficial transformation …, which does not reside in purview of Microfinance, there is not arrival at any meaningful economic development. The study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860391
Cover Image
Can reconstruction programmes improve political perceptions in conflict contexts? : evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Juan, Alexander de; Koos, Carlo; Pellicer, Miquel; … - In: The South African journal of economics 90 (2022) 4, pp. 427-455
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482246