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Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2009
Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices … poor households lacking access to social safety nets. Alternatively, governments can use food subsidies or export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479134
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Elements of Effective Central Banking: Theory, Practice, and History
Goodfriend, Marvin - eSocialSciences - 2007
emerged from great inflation and output instability into a period of remarkably low inflation associated with a great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170137
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Developing Asia’s Competitive Advantage in Green Products: Learning from the Japanese Experience
Lino, Fukuya; Lim, Alva - eSocialSciences - 2010
Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick- start their economies in response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671973
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Transparency in Government Procurement
Hoda, Anwarul; Bansal, Suchi - eSocialSciences - 2010
While in their purchase operations, as in all other activities, governments endeavour to maximise the use of scarce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671993
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HANTEX: An Economic Appraisal
Eapen, Mridul - eSocialSciences - 2010
Most Governments in the Third World Countries have actively promoted cooperatives in the traditional sectors of the …
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Do Indian States have the Power to Devise their Own Policies? A Study on Fiscal Space
Robin, Kim - eSocialSciences - 2014
for regional governments to shape their own policies. But the decentralization process remains partial: the macro …
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Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance
Deb, Uttam Kumar; Hossain, Mahabub; Jones, Steve - eSocialSciences - 2011
This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production. It draws on the results of a study commissioned by the UK Department for...
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2012
eSocialSciences; Transparency International TI - 2012
The Corruption Perceptions Index is constructed by the Transparency International. The Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries worldwide. Based on expert opinion, countries are scored from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Some...
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Assessing the Fiscal Capacity of Indian Governments
Goyal, Ashima - eSocialSciences - 2010
The record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances is …
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Assessing the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty
McKay, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2009
Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence distribution and poverty, but in fact the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459696