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The renminbi's role in the global monetary system
Prasad, Eswar; Ye, Lei - 2012
We analyze three related but distinct concepts concerning the renminbi's role in the global monetary system: (i) internationalization of the currency; (ii) currency convertibility; and (iii) reserve currency status. Their sequencing in relation to other policy goals such as financial sector...
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Crises, what crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2006
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster … macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises … interdependencies between the two types of crises, feedbacks between the two types of reform, the use of alternative measures of …
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Working But Poor - A Cross-National Comparison of Earnings Adequacy
O'Connor, Inge; Smeeding, Timothy Michael - 1993
Compares the ability of prime-age, able-bodied workers in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Netherlands, and the U.K. to keep themselves and their households out of poverty by working. The authors find that although the probability of being poor is smaller in households in which the head works...
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International Comparisons of Income Poverty and Extreme Income Poverty
Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1993
Uses LIS data to study the sensitivity of cross-national income poverty comparisons to the method in which poverty is measured. Examined are the differences between using absolute and relative poverty comparisons as well as the consequence of lowering the real value of the poverty line to...
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The Differential Impact of the Global Economy on Men and Women Employed in Selected Industrial Sectors Which Experience High Levels of International Competition: A Cross-National C...
Long, Russell L. - 1994
This study explores the influence that international competition has on worker well-being in the US, UK and Sweden. Industrial sectors are divided into tow groups: those that experience international competition and those that do not. Electronics, textiles, apparel, and automobile production...
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Financial Poverty in Developed Countries: The Evidence from LIS: Final Report to the UNDP
Smeeding, Timothy Michael - 1997
The object of this report is to review the available evidence on the extent and nature of financial poverty in modern rich nations within the OECD and selected other nations. While there is discussion of broader concepts of poverty such as those related to deficits in capabilities, social...
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Wage and Test Score Dispersion: Some International Evidence
Bedard, Kelly; Ferrall, Christopher - 1997
This paper includes fifty observations on wage distributions across eleven countries and two age cohorts defined by international mathematics tests given to thirteen-year-olds in 1962 and 1982. It is found that wage dispersion later in life is never greater than test score dispersion. In...
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American Income Inequality in a Cross-National Perspective: Why Are We So Different?
Smeeding, Timothy Michael - 1997
Increasingly the rich nations of the world face a common set of social and economic issues: the cost of population aging, a growing number of single parent families, the growing majority of two-earner families, increasing numbers of immigrants from poorer nations, and in particular, rising...
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International comparisons of Poverty Intensity: Index Decomposition and Bootstrap Inference
Osberg, Lars; Xu, Kuan - 1997
This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios....
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Poverty and Income Inequality: An International Comparison, 1980s and 1990s
Awad, Yaser; Israeli, Nirit - 1997
During recent years, both policy makers and administrators have become increasingly attentive to the economic distress of the weaker segments of society. In light of this development, many studies, including a number of comparative studies, were conducted both in Israel and throughout the world,...
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