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Community-based health insurance and social capital: A review

Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5

Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...

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What international monetary system for a fast-changing world economy

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2011

Though the renminbi is not yet convertible, the international monetary regime has already started to move towards a … long-term evolution of the balance of economic weight in the world economy. Such an evolution may mitigate some flaws of …

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Real effective exchange rates for 178 countries: A new database

Darvas, Zsolt - 2012

We use data on exchange rates and consumer price indices and the weighting matrix derived by Bayoumi, Lee and Jaewoo (2006) to calculate consumer price index-based REER. The main novelties of our database are that (1) it includes data for 178 countries - many more than in any other publicly...

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The crisis: Policy lessons and policy challenges

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Coeuré, Benoît; Jacquet, Pierre - 2009

We review the competing explanations of the 2007-2008 global crisis, recall how governments around the world had to …-bail-out world, the trade-off between financial stability and the cost of capital, the feasibility for central banks to manage their …

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Reform of the global financial architecture

Schinasi, Garry J.; Truman, Edwin M. - 2010

architecture, in particular the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board and their interaction. These two …

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Markov switching regimes in a monetary exchange rate model

Frömmel, Michael; MacDonald, Ronald; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2002

This paper extends the real interest differential (RID) model of Frankel (1979) by introducing Markov regime switches for three exchange rates over the years 1973 - 2000. Evidence of a non-linear relationship between exchange rates and underlying fundamentals is provided. One of the regimes...

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