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This paper presents a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space, broadly defined as the availability of budgetary resources for a government to service its financial obligations. The database covers up to 200 countries over the period 1990-2016, and includes 28 indicators of fiscal...
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burden of heat stress experienced by much of the world’s population in the coming decades. What will the distributional … household wealth in 690,745 households across 52 countries, this paper finds evidence suggesting that the welfare impacts of …
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history. The analysis shows that debt relief has a persistent effect on the level of household debt, but does not increase …
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Household credit, especially for mortgages, has doubled over the past years in the new European Union member countries …, raising concerns about the economic and social consequences of household indebtedness in the event of a macroeconomic crisis …. Using household survey data for 2005, 2006, and 2007 for both old and new European Union members, this paper assesses the …
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household cooking across different topographical regions in Nepal from both private and social perspectives. It finds … imported LPG with domestic hydropower for household cooking …
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This paper examines the compounded effects of conflict on household recovery following disasters, using Nigeria as a …
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This paper investigates the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique …
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While climate change is likely to increase weather risks in many developing countries, there is little evidence on effective policies to facilitate adaptation. This paper presents experimental evidence on a program in rural Nicaragua aimed at improving households' risk-management through income...
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to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in … household being above and below the poverty line. The paper provides an overview of the methods and issues arising in each case …
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only relying on information about the supply side. Household surveys have frequently been employed to collect demand …-side information. This paper presents a multiple bounded discrete choice household survey model. It discusses how the model can be …
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