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, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years …
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This paper analyses the finanical crisis of Asia in 1997, Russia and Brazil in 1998. It shows the importance of …
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The main purpose of this work is to develop a case study assessing the recent patterns and impacts of ODA (official development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue generation as well as domestic government health...
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Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success … East and South East Asia and asks: what can other developing countries learn from Asia’s success, if anything? The study …
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Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce global fertility and increase investment per child worldwide. The importance for fertility behaviors of keeping contraceptive prices low, however, remains...
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This paper examines several key global market conditions, such as a proxy for market uncertainty and measures of interbank funding stress, to assess financial volatility and the likelihood of crisis. Using Markov regime-switching techniques, it shows that the Lehman Brothers failure was a...
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from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, we econometrically test the hypothesis that pre-crisis innovation affected their … survival odds and performance thereafter. Overall, the results indicate that the innovation-survival connection holds … consequences. If appetite for risky innovation is sociably desirable and the crisis weeds out viable businesses, including those …
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