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Post-conflict microfinance: assessment and policy notes for Iraq
Desai, Sameeksha - 2007
This paper explores the potential of microfinance in post-conflict economies, and speci-fically examines policy … considerations for the case of Iraq. It presents important condi-tions of the post-conflict economy, and examines three critical … requirements for suc-cessful microfinance operations, as outlined by the Microenterprises Best Practices Project. Political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263817
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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269021
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Post-conflict Microfinance: Assessment and Policy Notes for Iraq
Desai, Sameeksha - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper explores the potential of microfinance in post-conflict economies, and speci-fically examines policy … considerations for the case of Iraq. It presents important condi-tions of the post-conflict economy, and examines three critical … requirements for suc-cessful microfinance operations, as outlined by the Microenterprises Best Practices Project. Political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864524
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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832166
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159948
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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2006
Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China's transition - both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733553
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A Systems View to IT Policy in Developing Countries : An Example from Venezuela
Reaiche, Carmen - 2021
Developing countries are finding that maintaining adequate Information Technology (IT) policies is still a challenge if they aim to their socio-economic development. This paper will explore the argument that some developing countries could benefit from a systems’ view approach to policy that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219601
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tagging communication and information technology issues in developing countries
Reaiche, Carmen - In: Journal of Developing Areas 49 (2015) 1, pp. 399-408
It is important for developing countries to enact IT policies that enable them to take advantage of the new technologies and any consequent economic development. This paper attempts to gain an understanding of how developing countries, in particular Venezuela and Nepal, could incorporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213147
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Russia Fall China Rise : Simulation Results of SAM Models for Transiting Economies
Cohen, S. I. - 2016
The paper reports on multiplier analysis of comparable Social Accounting Matrices for Russia and China. The benchmark is around 1990, which constitutes a crucial year in the transition of the two countries to mixed market-state economies. The relative sizes of the two economies have reversed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997583
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Economic Sustainability of Kosova as an Independent State, and the Role of Resolution 1244 in Achieving Economic Sustainability
Perritt, Henry H. - 2012
Four years of political trusteeship by the international community over Kosovo have produced insufficient progress on the economic front. The unemployment rate remains close to 60%; no overall vision for economic self-sufficiency exists; privatization has barely begun; and few steps have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075376