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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi
Wagstaff, Adam; Nguyen, Nga Nguyet - 2013
By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …
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Trade, Foreign Exchange, and Energy Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran : Reform Agenda, Economic Implications, and Impact on the Poor
Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - 2013
The Islamic Republic of Iran has committed itself to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five-Year Development Plan. It started out with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual exchange rate regime with the market rate more than four times the official rate, and domestic energy...
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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - 2013
This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...
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Trade, Regulations, and Growth
Bolaky, Bineswaree; Freund, Caroline - 2013
Trade does not stimulate growth in economies with excessive business and labor regulations. The authors examine the effect of openness on growth using cross-country regressions in both levels and changes. Results from the levels regressions imply that increased openness is associated with a...
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Assessing the Redistributive Effect of Fiscal Policy
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012
Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...
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A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Niger
Pinto Moreira, Emmanuel; Bayraktar, Nihal - 2012
The authors apply the dynamic macroeconomic framework developed by Ag??nor, Bayraktar, and El Aynaoui (2004) to Niger. As in the original model, linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health), and growth are explicitly captured....
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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa
Bayly, C. A. - 2012
This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and...
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Vietnam's Evolving Poverty Map : Patterns and Implications for Policy
Lanjouw, Peter; Marra, Marleen; Nguyen, Cuong - 2013
This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009 … targeting have become more pronounced over time in Vietnam. Although poverty reduction in Vietnam has been impressive, further …
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The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Vietnam and the Potential for Targeting
Minot, Nicholas; Baulch, Bob - 2013
The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, they combine the results with …
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Trade policy review mechanism: Australia : report by the Secretariat ; summary observations
In: World trade and arbitration materials 6 (1994) 1, pp. 22-31
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