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This paper uses a dynamic macro-micro framework to evaluate the potential distributional effects of the expansion of the Panama Canal. The results show that large macroeconomic effects are only likely during the operations phase (2014 and onward), and income gains are likely to be concentrated...
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The High Frequency South Sudan Survey, implemented by the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration … and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … South Sudan, utilizing the Rapid Consumption Methodology combined with geo-spatial data for inaccessible survey areas …
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economic, social, physical, and mental well-being. This study assesses the impact of the post-2013 conflict in South Sudan on …
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markets across South Sudan. The analysis reveals that markets in South Sudan are highly segmented. Price differences for … substantially following the imposition of the trade restrictions with Sudan. This increase tends to hurt disproportionately the poor …
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paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer the question: Can the international community change the grassroots …
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Improvements in infrastructure across Sudan in recent years have contributed 1.7 percentage points to the country's per … other sector to growth in Sudan. Raising the infrastructure endowment of all parts of Sudan to that of the region's best … performer -- Mauritius -- could boost annual growth by about 3.5 percentage points. Sudan has heavily invested in infrastructure …
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Newly independent South Sudan faces a challenge in making its own way in infrastructure development. Despite earning $6 … billion in oil revenues since 2005, South Sudan's spending has not been proportional to its income, but rather has lagged … behind North Sudan's development of infrastructure and social support. South Sudan benefitted from strong donor support …
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Oral rehydration therapy is the key low-cost child survival intervention used to deal with diarrheal illness in developing countries. The existence of a low-cost, highly efficacious technological fix (oral rehydration salts) for the life-threatening dehydration that accompanies diarrhea provided...
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This study employed the Ricardian approach to measure the economic impacts of climate change on farm net revenue in Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which factors influence the variability of farm net revenues....
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The Egyptian pound depreciated sharply between 2000 and 2005, declining by 26 percent in nominal trade-weighted terms. The author investigates the effect of the large depreciation on household welfare operating through exchange rate-induced changes in consumer prices. He estimates exchange rate...
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