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Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform For Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana [PDF]

This report summarizes the findings of a UNDP-sponsored study on the structure of the financial sector, central bank policy, and employment outcomes in Ghana. The financial sector is the primary conduit through which monetary policy affects real economic
James Heintz, Gerald Epstein
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview [PDF]

This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation.
Prasad, Eswar
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BANKING INVESTMENT LENDING IN CONDITIONS OF IMBALANCES OF MOVEMENTS OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2016
The purpose of the paper is to justify theoretically the existence of disparities between the paces of development of the financial and real sectors of the economy of Ukraine, and in this regard, to study of the role of the banking investment lending as ...
Alina Herasymenko
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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the SDGs into reverse: The financial sector can play its part in the recovery by excluding tobacco. [PDF]

Tob Prev Cessat, 2021
Hurley G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Financial Sector Returns and Creditor Moral Hazard: Evidence from Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand [PDF]

This paper introduces a framework of investor behavior in which investors form their expectations regarding the credibility of a prospective IMF program in reforming the financial sector characterized by domestic implicit guarantees.
Jian Tong, Chenggang Xu
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Differentiated Impacts of EU Rural Development Measures: A Finite Mixture Evaluation of Italian Olive Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between participation in the EU Rural Development Program and the economic performance of Italian olive farms using a finite‐mixture model with inverse‐probability‐weighted regression adjustment. Based on 2010–2022 FADN panel data, it estimates heterogeneous treatment effects while correcting for selection ...
Francesco Caracciolo, Marilena Furno
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When does financial sector (in)stability induce financial reforms? [PDF]

The article studies whether financial sector (in)stability had an effect on reforms in the financial sector in a large cross-country panel from 1990 to 2005.
Susie Lee, Ingmar Schumacher
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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source