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Selective mortality and undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries

Harttgen, Kenneth; Lang, Stefan; Seiler, Johannes - 2017

Anthropometric indicators, in particular the height for a particular age, are found to be lowest in South Asia compared …, this discrepancy between the undernutrition rates between South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa should be expected to decrease …

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The energy-pollution-health nexus : a panel data analysis of low- and middle-income Asian nations

Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Rasoulinezhad, Ehsan; … - 2020

An energy resource as a production input plays a major role in various economic sectors, including commodity production, transportation, and electricity generation. However, increased energy consumption may lead to more air pollution, resulting in negative health impacts in a society. The main...

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Is there a carry trade channel of monetary policy in emerging countries?

Kisgergely, Kornél - 2012

This paper empirically tests whether monetary policy can have a perverse effect on aggregate demand in emerging economies, because of short-term speculative inflows. For this purpose, a bayesian VAR is estimated on a panel of six major emerging countries. Monetary and risk shocks are identified...

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Is decoupling in action?

Pesce, Antonio - 2013

Emerging market economies (also known as emerging economies, EEs) have become important on the world economic stage, where they now play a vital role in international trade and financial flows and account for a conspicuous fraction of the global economic dynamic. Despite the relatively tepid...

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How External Factors Affect Domestic Economy : Nowcasting an Emerging Market

Solmaz, Serhat - 2016

External headwinds, together with domestic vulnerabilities, have loomed over the prospects of emerging markets in recent years. We propose an empirical toolbox to quantify the impact of external macro-financial shocks on domestic economies in parsimonious way. Our model is a Bayesian VAR...

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Real business cycles in emerging countries : are Asian business cycles different from Latin American business cycles?

Hwang, Seolwoong; Kim, So-yŏng - 2021

emerging countries, namely, those in Asia and Latin America. This study first documents that Asian economies are characterized …. First, the first three differences are mainly explained by a higher persistence of trend productivity shocks in Asia than in … Asia than in Latin America. We further provide data on policy regime changes and labor markets in both regions to explain …

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Child drowning : evidence for a newly recognized cause of child mortality in low and middle income countries in Asia

Linnan, Michael; Rahman, Aminur; Scarr, Justin; … - 2012

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Exchange rate movements in emerging economies : global vs regional factors in Asia

Chiappini, Raphaël; Lahet, Delphine - In: China economic review : an international journal 60 (2020), pp. 1-29

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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Effects and Solutions

Glassman, Amanda; Silverman Bonnifield, Rachel; … - 2012

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...

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Depression and Loneliness Among the Elderly Poor

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Grela, Erin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The mental health of the elderly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a largely neglected subject, both by policy and research. We combine data from the health and retirement family of surveys in seven LMICs (plus the US) to document that depressive symptoms among those aged 55 and...

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