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Are Remittances Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines

by Dean Yang HwaJung Choi Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)

“...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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The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-Country Empirics

by 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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Remittances and the Brain Drain: Do More Skilled Migrants Remit More?

by 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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Brain Drain in Developing Countries

by 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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Trade, Production, and Protection Database, 1976-2004

by Alessandro Nicita Marcelo Olarreaga Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)

“...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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A Short Note on Updating the Grilli and Yang Commodity Price Index

by 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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Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry

by 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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Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence

by 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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Child labor, school attendance, and intrahousehold gender bias in Brazil

by Emerson, Patrick M Souza, Andre Portela Published in The World Bank economic review (2007)

“...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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Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data

by David Stifel Luc Christiaensen Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)

“...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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Incremental Reform and Distortions in China's Product and Factor Markets

by Xiaobo Zhang Kong-Yam Tan Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)

“...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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Did the Health Card Program Ensure Access to Medical Care for the Poor during Indonesia's Economic Crisis?

by 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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Business Cycle Synchronization and Regional Integration: A Case Study for Central America

by 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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Dollars, Debt, and International Financial Institutions: Dedollarizing Multilateral Lending

by 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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Protecting the Vulnerable: The Tradeoff between Risk Reduction and Public Insurance

by Shantayanan Devarajan William Jack Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2007)

“...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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Where on Earth is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960–2000

by 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...”

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