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An optimal rice policy for Sierra Leone : balancing consumer and producer welfare

Graham, Errol George; Tchale, Hardwick; Ndione, Mamadou - 2020

Rice is a staple food in the West African nation of Sierra Leone with little difference in consumption between poor and wealthy households. Rice production is also an important source of livelihood with half of all households, three-quarters of rural households and about two-thirds of poor...

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Willingness to pay for electricity access in extreme poverty : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2019

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

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Using labor supply elasticities to learn about income inequality : the role of productivities versus preferences

Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020

This paper argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality. In the theoretical framework, individuals choose labor supply conditional on productivities and preferences for consumption relative to leisure. The paper shows that reduced-form...

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How comparable are labor demand elasticities across countries?

Fajnzylber, Pablo; Maloney, William F. - 2001

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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?

Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019

mitigation measures, such as carbon prices applied to bunker fuels in the range of 10 to 50 USD/ton of carbon dioxide, might … increase maritime transport costs by 0.4 percent to 16 percent. However, this would only marginally increase the import prices …

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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2019

to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … workers in middle-income countries. The results on prices show asymmetric behavior across types of products. Overall, the …

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Inflation : concepts, evolution, and correlates

Ha, Jongrim; Ivanova, Anna; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Unsal, … - 2019

In the past four to five decades, inflation has fallen around the world, with median annual global consumer price inflation down from a peak of 16.6 percent in 1974 to 2.6 percent in 2017. This decline began in advanced economies in the mid-1980s and in emerging market and developing economies...

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Understanding inflation in emerging and developing economies

Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2019

Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs,...

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Tariff index theory

Anderson, James E. - 1992

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Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform : some new facts

Pritchett, Lant; Sethi, Geeta - 1993

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