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Health System Resilience and Afghan Refugee Health in Pakistan: An Exploratory Study of Challenges and Pathways to Inclusion

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pakistan has hosted Afghan refugees for more than four decades, in one of the world's most protracted displacements of people. Afghan refugees receive health services through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and non‐governmental organisation (NGO) supported programmes alongside public sector facilities at every tier.
Zahid Ali Memon, Asma Ummad, Amina Olabi, Natasha Palmer, Sophie Witter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Nexus Between Trade Liberalisation and Income Inequality: The Case of Sub‐Saharan African Countries

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on income inequality across 24 Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries from 2000 to 2020. Using IV‐Tobit and 2SLS models, we consistently find that greater trade openness significantly exacerbates inequality in the region. Critically, we document an inverted U‐shaped relationship between trade
Guivis Zeufack Nkemgha, Le Roi Nso Fils, Ulrich Kevin Kamwa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

DAMPAK DANA ALOKASI UMUM (DAU) TERHADAP PEMERATAAN FISKAL KABUPATEN/KOTA DI NUSA TENGGARA BARAT

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis Airlangga, 2009
The main purpose of this research is to analyze how far General grant between every municipal in Province Nusa Tenggara Barat could lessen horizontal fiscal gap. This research is using serial data from period 2002-2006.
Siti Sriningsih, Muadi Yasin
doaj  

Can fiscal transfers achieve both equity and efficiency: Evidence from Chinese counties

International Review of Economics & Finance
Whether fiscal transfers can simultaneously achieve the dual goals of equity and growth has been a key topic of public finance research. This paper examines China's fiscal decentralization system and its intergovernmental transfer practices, proposing ...
Feng Liu, Yangmu Hu
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Household Consumption Intentions by Income Group During Monetary Policy Easing and Tightening

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate how the monetary policy interest rate affects Brazilian households' consumption intentions under two distinct regimes: monetary easing and tightening cycles. Using data from low‐ and high‐income households, we assess both the magnitude and the dynamics of this relationship.
Helder Ferreira de Mendonça, Daniel Pereira dos Anjos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable finance and horizontal fiscal equalization: the case of bolivian municipalities

Investigación & Desarrollo
Sustainable finance is consistently gaining relevance in financial markets across the world including Bolivia, a country where more than seventy percent of the population live in urban areas.
Bernardo Fernández-Tellería, Leticia Victoria Castedo Michel   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asymmetric Long‐Run Effects of Monetary Policy on Generational Inequality

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the asymmetric long‐run effects of reversing contractionary monetary policy to expansionary policy on generational inequality in the UK using non‐linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL). The results show that there exists a long‐term relationship between monetary policy and income, consumption, and wealth ...
Aminat A. Raheem
wiley   +1 more source

Similarity‐Dissimilarity in the Asian Financial Markets Integration: A Four‐Moment Approach to Examining Convergence‐Divergence to Global Financial Market Centroids

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the evolving integration of 10 major Asian stock markets with key global and regional financial centres, namely, the U.S., China, the E.U., and a constructed Asia centroid. Incorporating all four statistical moments (mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis), we compute pairwise Euclidean distances to evaluate the degree ...
Burak Korkusuz, Mehmet Sahiner, Jeremy Eng‐Tuck Cheah, Aquila Yeong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Realistic Representation, Dynamic Evolution and Determinants of Institutional Quality in China

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper delves into the role of institutional quality in bolstering China's economic resilience post‐COVID‐19, CITIC‐Entropy. It divides institutions into basic and changeable categories, establishing an index system via the CITIC‐Entropy TOPSIS model.
Susu Wang, Qidi Zhang, Jing Fang
wiley   +1 more source

Small Area Consumption Estimates Combining Survey and Financial Footprints Data

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate average equivalised consumption measures across 370 local authority districts in Great Britain, using small‐area estimation methods that combine information from a household budget survey, a much larger survey of local demographics and employment, and area‐level information on bank account outflows and energy consumption.
Peter Levell, Lars Nesheim, Gautam Vyas
wiley   +1 more source