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We investigate within the context of Viet Nam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify household and commune characteristics and...
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structural and labour markups are primarily driven by compositional shifts of surviving firms, while materials markup growth is … driven by the average firm in a given sector. We show that merger intensity is positively related to structural markup growth … structural markup growth over the period from 2012 to 2019. We find that large vertical mergers are positively related to …
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Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …
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The savings-growth nexus is widely acknowledged, both in policy and in the literature. But Kenya's numerous policy …, we find that in the long run, private saving is positively and significantly influenced by the per capita income growth … saving is positively and significantly influenced by the per capita income growth rate, inflation, and private sector credit …
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and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on economic growth forecasts, take into account recent global shocks such as … the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation shock. Our findings indicate that economic growth alone will not be sufficient to … this, we argue, is that a stronger focus is needed on inclusive growth (SDG-8), and specifically redistribution with growth …
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endogeneity problem in the aid-growth relationship. Evidence from a panel VAR model estimated on the dataset of NDHKM, suggests a …
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I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …
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reductions. The mode for recycling carbon tax revenues strongly influences distributional outcomes, with tradeoffs between growth …
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This study links a multi-sectoral regionalized dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Ethiopia with a system of country-specific hydrology, crop, road and hydropower engineering models to simulate the economic impacts of climate change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded...
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This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past forty years stimulated growth, promoted structural …
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