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Central Bank Intervention and Exchange Rate Expectations: Evidence from the Daily DM/US-Dollar Exchange Rate
Reitz, Stefan - 2002
bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are … to daily US-dollar/DEM forward rates and intervention data of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve from 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295734
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Das internationale Engagement in Afghanistan: Strategien, Perspektiven, Konsequenzen
Schmidt, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Im Juni dieses Jahres bekundeten die in Afghanistan engagierten Staaten auf der Pariser Konferenz ihre Absicht, der Kabuler Regierung die volle Verantwortung für den Aufbau des Landes zu übertragen. Diese Politik erscheint zwar alternativlos, führt angesichts der schwindenden Unterstützung,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178538
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The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children's Nutrition and Education
Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023
We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377479
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Report cards: Parental preferences, information and school choice in Haiti
Bogner, Michael; Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; … - 2023
This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market … scores, prices, and enrollment. After the intervention, we find that private schools have higher test scores, with an average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518299
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Migration, remittances and children's schooling in Haiti
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Georges, Annie; Pozo, Susan - 2008
In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After …'s schooling and, given the substantial costs of schooling in Haiti, contribute to the accumulation of human capital in the midst …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268794
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International migration, remittances and labour supply: The case of the Republic of Haiti
Jadotte, Evans - 2009
The Republic of Haiti is a prime international remittance-recipient country in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC …) region, relative to its gross domestic product (GDP). The downside of this fact may be that Haiti, based on population size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273456
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Migration, remittances and educational outcomes: The case of Haiti
Bredl, Sebastian - 2009
receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the … that budget constraints play a crucial role in schooling decisions in Haiti due to the dominance of private schools and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301373
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Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti's economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328222
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor – Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and Black Diasporas in Latin America
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas …, (pp. 241-262). 2011
and Haiti. … mises en évidence, en analysant le cas des pauvres d'Afrique au Bénin et les diasporas africaines du Brésil et de Haïti. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331376