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change, and iii) that the only policy tool needed is to price carbon emissions. Second, to argue that climate change cuts … across traditional policy areas and that a wide set of different policy tools is required to reduce emissions. I also call …
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The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate economic output, in particular, the welfare of the very...
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change, and iii) that the only policy tool needed is to price carbon emissions. Second, to argue that climate change cuts … across traditional policy areas and that a wide set of different policy tools is required to reduce emissions. I also call …
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When labor incomes approach subsistence levels, the labor supply curve slopes outward, because the fight for survival mandates households to look for longer work hours in response to falling wage rates. We explore conditions under which near-subsistence scenarios may imply wage traps, labor...
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countries, policy prescriptions usually advocated for the more advanced nations. Adhering to monoeconomics, many historians of …
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The savings-growth nexus is widely acknowledged, both in policy and in the literature. But Kenya's numerous policy …
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We apply a duration analysis to test the conflicting predictions of the median voter model and the lobbying model using panel data on regional trade agreement (RTA) formation. Our results show that the pro-labor prediction of the median voter model is supported by the full-fledged free trade...
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The paper models the policy challenges facing globalizing developing countries. Models from the pure theory of … diversification and currency crises models are reviewed to distil policy guidelines to promote the globalization of developing … offers new policy vistas for promoting globalization in developing countries. …
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poverty, is contingent on a range of factors in addition to the quality of recipient country policy regimes. These factors …
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