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The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have … analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … more regressive in Paraguay. At the same time, the results of the simulations indicate small effects on income inequality. …
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Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents that greater female bargaining power within households results in a variety of shifts in household production and consumption. An important source of intrahousehold bargaining...
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This essay assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are used to derive efficiency measures. Smaller farms are found to have higher net farm income per hectare, and to be more technically efficient, than larger farms.
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ownership of, land to the rural poor, using Paraguay as our model. The land sales market is also examined. The land rental … market in Paraguay's rural areas is found to be very thin, due at least in part to a lack of available credit for inputs …
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This paper investigates the impact of the pilot phase of Paraguay's conditional cash transfer programme, Tekoporã, on …
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This paper analyses the competitiveness evolution in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay within Mercosur trade …
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accumulation dynamics using unique panel data from Paraguay. The results suggest that farm growth varies systematically with farm …
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In this paper I apply Porto (2006) to Paraguay using household level data. The aim is to assess the distributional …
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During the 2000s Paraguay experienced slow economic growth but improved all labour market indicators. The growth … process was erratic. Paraguay underwent a macroeconomic crisis at the beginning of the period, a recession as a consequence of …
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