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In the last 20 years, Vietnam has been one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. But the coverage of social insurance is still low. Only around one in five workers is covered by the public social insurance scheme. Expanding the coverage of social insurance for informal sector workers and the...
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In this note we consider several versions of the bootstrap and argue that it can be helpful in explaining and thinking about such procedures to use an explicit representation of the random resampling process. To illustrate the point we give such explicit representations and use them to produce...
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agglomeration instrumented with altitude are not endogenous and given the finding of spatial correlation between Latin American … regions, a spatial autoregressive panel model with fixed effects is estimated by Maximum Likelihood. For the sake of this … estimation, we apply three spatial weight matrices. The first one is the k=1nearest neighbors weight matrix which is interpreted …
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Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years but still remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia …. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to … literature, it appears that reduced rural poverty in Cambodia would have to rest on two pillars. Firstly, improvements in …
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Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use 'lab-in-the-field experiments' in Cambodian villages to study solidarity in established and newly resettled communities. Both communities are part of a land distribution project...
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Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use "lab-in-the-field experiments" in Cambodian villages to study social cohesion in established and newly resettled communities. Both communities are part of a land distribution...
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This paper examines Cambodia's socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country's economic … spatial development, weak institutions, and high levels of corruption. Looking forward, we highlight the importance of …
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land struggles in Cambodia. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, my findings suggest that land rights activism in … Cambodia has undergone a gendered re-framing process. Reasoning that women tend to use non-violent means of contestation and …In Kambodscha sind Aktivistinnen trotz tief verwurzelter Geschlechternormen und Vorstellungen von weiblicher …
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structures can effectively facilitate voice in fragile states. Cambodia's unusual social protection trajectory offers some …
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produce poverty measures at the commune-level in Cambodia using the small-area estimation technique developed by Elbers …
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