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The Interaction between Income Inequality and Imports of Manufactured Goods: A Case for Developing Countries

, 2012
Questions surrounding income inequality have received much attention in recent economic literature. The effects of the imports of manufactured goods on income inequality in developing countries are found to be inconclusive in the existing literature ...
Rahnamamoghadam, Masha, Fawaz, Fadi
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Sectoral Heterogeneity, Income Inequality and Productivity Dynamics

, 2021
An intricate dynamic pattern has been commonly observed in many developed countries during the past decades. This pattern contains a simultaneous rise in the following economic variables: (i) total factor productivity, (ii) educated labor supply, (iii ...
Assaf Sarid, Maoz, Yishay D.
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
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What Really Drives Agri‐Environment‐Climate Measures' Adoption? Mandatory Requirements, Behavioral Traits, and Structural Factors in the CAP Green Architecture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata, M. Rodríguez‐Entrena, M. Espinosa‐Goded, F. J. Dessart, J. Barreiro‐Hurlé   +4 more
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Economic cost of childhood unintentional injuries

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012
Aims: This study aims to review the economic cost of childhood (0-18 years) unintentional injuries (UI) and focuses upon comparing the cost burden between developing and developed countries.
Zhiqin Lao, Mervyn Gifford, Koustuv Dalal   +2 more
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Financing health care in high-income countries [PDF]

The main lesson from the experience of high-income countries with health care financing is a simple one: financing reforms should support the ultimate goal of universal coverage. Most high-income countries started with voluntary health insurance systems,
G. Schieber, Jonas Schreyoegg, Reinhard Busse   +2 more
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Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci, Giulia Maesano, Leonardo Casini, Maurizio Canavari, Marija Cerjak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Availability and affordability of medicines and cardiovascular outcomes in 21 high-income, middle-income and low-income countries

, 2020
DigitalObjectives We aimed to examine the relationship between access to medicine for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) among people at high risk of CVD in high-income countries (HICs), upper and lower middle ...
Bahonar, Ahmad, Khatib, Rasha, Avezum, Alvaro, Gupta, Rajeev, McKee, Martin, Li, Wei, Nguyen, Ngoc, Teo, Koon, Kumar, Rajesh, Yusoff, Khalid, Yusuf, Salim, Alhabib, Khalid F., Yusufali, Afzalhussein, Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio, Kazmi, Khawar, Marschner, Simone, Diaz, Rafael, Mony, Prem, Kruger, Iolanthe Marike, Rahman, Omar, Zatonska, Katarzyna, Rosengren, Annika, Lear, Scott A., Lanas, Fernando, Hu, Bo, Chow, Clara Kayei, Yeates, Karen, Rangarajan, Sumathy, Chifamba, Jephat, Dans, Antonio   +29 more
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Lia Nogueira   +2 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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