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Cotton is one unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After liberalization in late 1994, production rose from 20,000 mt to over 100,000 mt in the 1998 harvest year. After collapsing to less than 50,000 mt in 2000, it has risen steadily, nearing 200,000 mt in 2005. Over...
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This paper assesses the level and composition of the Zambia’s public expenditures in the agricultural sector from 2000 to 2008. By measuring the size of public agricultural expenditures, the study will answer whether the Government of Zambia met CAADP’s target of allocating 10% of national...
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phenomenon, discusses the context for policy today, and proposes a series of recommendations for policy changes that would move …
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This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. To this end a unique firm level panel data...
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Reconsiders tax reform and economic emancipation of women with respect to public policy formation in The Netherlands … 1980s to influence the public policy process on tax form. The theory of public choice is applied as a theoretical framework … expressed in the public policy process by various lobby mechanisms and political arenas in the Dutch political-economic system …
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economic transition, the policy implications of this analysis can be simply extended to other cases. Emphasizes that wage …, warns about the practical enforcement of the wage policy and the distortionary effect of the minimum wage policy. With …
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stabilisation policy on the internal and external balances. An expansionary monetary or fiscal policy in particular through its …
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non-infectious disease. We find that a funding mechanism consistent with current US policy lowers the investment in … healthy lifestyles by both the wealthy, who pay taxes, and the poor, who receive subsidies. We also explore alternative policy …
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We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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In this paper it is shown that it matters a lot for empirical research whether policy is taken to be exogenously set or … to be endogenous. In the model investment depends on policy which depends on economically important fundamentals and is …, thus, endogenous. Conditioning on factor accumulation in growth regressions that also include endogenous policy variables …
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