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Low-Income Countries' Access to Private Debt Markets [PDF]
Private debt flows to developing countries surged to record levels over the period 2003-07. A few low-income countries have gained access to the international bond market but the bulk of the flows have continued to go to just a few large middle-income ...
Hostland, Doug
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the official announcement effect of the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) and the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) on the corn and soybean futures market. Using a permutation test and a 2‐stage GLS model, we find no significant official announcement effect.
Zhining Sun +3 more
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Financial development, trade openness and financial openness: do income levels matter for developing countries? [PDF]
Using a panel of 29 African middle and low income countries with data spanning from 1988 to 2007, we analyze linkages between openness and financial intermediary development when income levels matter. Main findings are four: firstly, openness in the last
Simplice A, Asongu
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Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy +3 more
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On the Economic Vulnerability of Low Income Countries [PDF]
This paper examines the relevance of the concept of economic vulnerability for low income countries, a topic of recent concern in several international bodies.
Patrick GUILLAUMONT
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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Do CCT Programmes Work in Low-Income Countries? [PDF]
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have worked fairly well in large upper middle-income countries such as Brazil and Mexico. But this does not mean that the CCT model can be exported to all countries, especially the poorest.
Simone Cecchini
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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse +2 more
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Who are the net food importing countries ? [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict and whether they are significant oil exporters.
Aksoy, M. Ataman, Ng, Francis
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Lost revenues in low income countries [PDF]
, 2017 This research estimates how much revenue six low income countries – of which five are in sub Saharan Africa - are losing unnecessarily from various potential revenue streams that could be used to fund public services. In recent years, increased attention
Curtis, Mark +1 more
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