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1also available:Exemplare Uni Bonn from 1986
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2“...Do remittances sent by overseas migrants serve as insurance for recipient households? In a study of how remittances from overseas respond to income shocks...”
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3by David Roodman Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...The recent literature contains many stories of how foreign aid affects economic growth. Aid raises growth in countries with good policies, or with difficult...”
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5by Riccardo Faini Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...In most destination countries, immigration policies are tilted more and more in favor of skilled individuals. Whether this shift hurts economic prospects in...”
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6by Frédéric Docquier Olivier Lohest Abdeslam Marfouk Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...An original data set on international migration by educational attainment for 1990 and 2000 is used to analyze the determinants of brain drain from developing...”
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7by Owen O'Donnell Eddy van Doorslaer Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya Aparnaa Somanathan Shiva Raj Adhikari Deni Harbianto Charu C. Garg Piya Hanvoravongchai Mohammed N. Huq Anup Karan Gabriel M. Leung Chiu Wan Ng Badri Raj Pande Keith Tin Kanjana Tisayaticom Laksono Trisnantoro Yuhui Zhang Yuxin Zhao Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves...”
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8“...The database described in this article provides researchers with a broad set of data on trade, production, and protection for 28 manufacturing sectors at the...”
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9by Stephan Pfaffenzeller Paul Newbold Anthony Rayner Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...The Grilli and Yang commodity price index is one of the most widely used commodity price series in the applied economics literature. This note provides some...”
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10by Michel Beine Frédéric Docquier Hillel Rapoport Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...Recent data on international migration of skilled workers define skilled migrants by education level without distinguishing whether they acquired their...”
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11by Chris Elbers Jan Willem Gunning Bill Kinsey Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...How exposure to risk affects economic growth is a key issue in development. This article quantifies both the ex ante and ex post effects of risk using...”
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12“...An extensive survey data set of Brazilian households is used to test whether intrahousehold gender bias affects the decisions of mothers and fathers to send...”
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13“...Following the endorsement by the international community of the Millennium Development Goals, there has been an increasing demand for practical methods for...”
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14“...The purpose of economic reform is to reduce distortions and enhance efficiency. However, when reforms are partial and incremental, individuals and local...”
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15by Menno Pradhan Fadia Saadah Robert Sparrow Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...The Indonesian Social Safety Net health card program was implemented in response to the economic crisis that hit Indonesia in 1997, to preserve access to...”
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16by Norbert Fiess Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...Deeper trade integration between Central America and the United States, as envisaged under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, is likely to lead to...”
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17by Eduardo Levy Yeyati Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)“...Financial dollarization is increasingly seen as a concern because of its tendency to contribute to financial crises and output volatility. As a result the...”
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18“...In a risky world should governments provide public goods that reduce risk or compensate the victims of bad outcomes through social insurance? This article...”
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20by Çağlar Özden Christopher R. Parsons Maurice Schiff Terrie L. Walmsley Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2011)“...Global matrices of bilateral migrant stocks spanning 1960–2000 are presented, disaggregated by gender and based primarily on the foreign-born definition of...”