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Foreign aid, fertility and populations growth: Evidence from Africa

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …

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Deepening Intraregional Trade and Investment in South Asia: The Case of the Textiles and Clothing Industry

Tewari, Meenu - 2008

This paper draws on recent field work within South Asia and an extensive review of secondary data to examine the dynamics of cross border trade and investment in South Asia, exploring the potential for, and obstacles to, such trade through the lens of a sector that is salient throughout South...

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Regional Economic Integration and FDI in South Asia : Prospects and Problems

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2008

The slow progress and modest achievements of regional integration in South Asia have generated a huge amount of skepticism about its role as an effective strategy of growth. The present study, however, argues that there is need to forge deeper integration within the region. It examines the...

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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...

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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities

Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - 2009

Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification...

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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries

Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015

There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...

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Integrating south and southeast Asia through services value chain: The case of India and Thailand

Mukherjee, Arpita; Goyal, Tanu M. - 2015

Liberalisation and technological developments have led to the fragmentation of production and the emergence of the concept of global value chains. This has ushered in the role of services for linking the production network, resulting in a greater composition of services in the value of tradable....

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The effect of superstition on health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost month

Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-Lun; Liu, Jin-tan - 2019

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health outcomes. We study the case of the Taiwanese Ghost month. During this period, which is believed to increase the likelihood of bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in...

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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits

Raute, Anna - 2018

In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …

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Mothers' income recovery after childbearing

Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - 2012

novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a …

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