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on Central and Western Asia |
| By: | durongkaveroj, wannaphong |
| Abstract: | Economic integration is nowadays likely to be larger in major economies around the world, especially among the ten active countries in the Southeast Asia. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of the possible trade agreement between the ASEAN and its current FTA partners as RCEP, Turkey, and Pakistan through Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model using Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model. This study reveals that most of the ASEAN member countries is positively affected under various trade bloc on their GDP, export, import, and regional household income. However, there is the difference in the level of gains among all members which leads to an urgent responsibility to create an inclusive growth. |
| Keywords: | AEC; FTA; RCEP; Trade liberalization; CGE model; GTAP model |
| JEL: | C68 F0 F1 F15 F5 |
| Date: | 2015–03–21 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:63421&r=cwa |
| By: | Ayhan, Sinem H. (IZA) |
| Abstract: | This paper contributes to the research on interdependencies in spousal labor supply by analyzing labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses ("added worker effect"). It empirically tests the hypothesis of added worker effect relying on a case study on Turkey during the global economic crisis of 2008. Identification is achieved by exploiting the exogenous variation in the output of male-dominated sectors that were hit hard by the crisis and the high degree of gender segmentation that characterizes the Turkish labor market. Findings based on the instrumental variable approach suggest that the probability of entering the labor force for a woman increases by up to 29% in response to her husband's unemployment. However the effect is not contemporaneous; it appears with a quarter of lag and remains existent only for two quarters. |
| Keywords: | spousal labor supply, added worker effect, discouraged worker effect, global economic crisis |
| JEL: | C26 D10 J16 J22 |
| Date: | 2015–03 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp8937&r=cwa |
| By: | Olle Ostensson; Bob Parsons; Samantha Dodd |
| Keywords: | Finance and Financial Sector Development - Debt Markets Industry - Mining & Extractive Industry (Non-Energy) Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Economic Theory & Research Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Taxation & Subsidies Private Sector Development - Emerging Markets |
| Date: | 2014–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:21587&r=cwa |
| By: | World Bank |
| Keywords: | Information and Communication Technologies - Telecommunications Infrastructure Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Markets and Market Access Technology Industry Education - Education for the Knowledge Economy Private Sector Development - E-Business Industry |
| Date: | 2014–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:21502&r=cwa |
| By: | Kenneth Fortson; Randall Blair; Kathryn Gonzalez |
| Abstract: | In this report, we present key findings of an impact evaluation of the Rural Road Rehabilitation Project (RRRP) in Armenia. The RRRP was originally conceived as part of a five-year, $236 million Compact between the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and Armenia designed to increase household income and reduce poverty in rural Armenia. |
| Keywords: | Rural Road Rehabilitation Project, Armenia, International |
| JEL: | F Z |
| Date: | 2015–03–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mpr:mprres:3dad6663ad0343f28cb24633d310c7a3&r=cwa |
| By: | Donald F. Larson; Dilshod Khidirov; Irina Ramniceanu |
| Keywords: | Crops and Crop Management Systems Agriculture and Farming Systems Economic Theory and Research Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems Environmental Economics and Policies Environment Agriculture Rural Development Macroeconomics and Economic Growth |
| Date: | 2015–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:21495&r=cwa |
| By: | World Bank |
| Keywords: | Finance and Financial Sector Development - Access to Finance Environmental Economics and Policies Finance and Financial Sector Development - Debt Markets Transport Economics Policy and Planning Public Sector Expenditure Policy Public Sector Development Transport Environment |
| Date: | 2015–02 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:21597&r=cwa |
| By: | Sameh El-Saharty; Naoko Ohno; Intissar Sarker; Federica Secci; Sayed Ghulam |
| Abstract: | Afghanistan suffers from poverty and low human development aggravated by 23 years of conflict. In 2012, the population was 29 million and per capita income US $268. Economic growth was estimated at 3.6 percent in 2013, down from 14.4 percent in 2012. The transition led to investor and consumer wariness. Poverty reduction has stagnated at about 36 percent since 2007-08, while inequality increased (NRVA 2011-12). The Gini coefficient rose from 29.7 in 2007-08 to 31.6 in 2011-12. The large youth population ? 47 percent is under 15 ? is an opportunity to benefit from the demographic dividend through high growth and poverty reduction.The country ranks 175 out of 187 countries in the human development index. |
| Keywords: | access to resources, adolescent, adolescent fertility, antenatal care, basic health services, blood pressure, child health, child mortality, complications, contraceptive ... See More + prevalence, contraceptives, Early childbearing, Economic growth, economic opportunities, family planning, Female, Female literacy, Fertility, fertility rate, first birth, first marriage, Gender, Gender equality, gender gaps, Gender Inequality, girls, health facility, Health Management, human development, Iron, Iron Deficiency, Iron Deficiency Anemia, LAM, live births, married women, maternal death, maternal deaths, maternal health, maternal health outcomes, maternal health services, Maternal mortality, Maternal mortality rate, Midwifery, Midwifery Education, Ministry of Health, mothers, Nutrition, pill, Postnatal care, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Outcomes, progress, public awareness, Public Health, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, Reproductive Health Outcomes, rural areas, rural women, schools, service quality, Skilled birth attendance, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, urban areas, urban women, woman, World Health Organization, youth |
| Date: | 2014–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:hnpkbs:93616&r=cwa |
| By: | Sayed Ghulam; Khalil Ahmad Mohmand; Sameh El-Saharty |
| Abstract: | Afghanistan's health services in the immediate post conflict period were in a deplorable and chaotic state. In 2002, its maternal mortality ratio was the second highest in the world, reflecting a lack of access and utilization of reproductive health services and skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first month after delivery. These services are key to saving women at risk of dying due to pregnancy and childbirth complications. In a society where women seek care only from female providers, one barrier to expansion of services was the lack of qualified female health workers to deploy to remote health facilities to make up for the shortfall of female staff. Some 77 percent of the population was living in rural areas, where women are usually excluded from access to skilled and emergency health care. In 2003 for example, most Afghan women delivered at home, and fewer than 10 percent of births were attended by a skilled provider. Very few midwives trained in Kabul or other big cities were willing to work in rural areas where the needs were much higher. Moreover, there were no education facilities and too few female school graduates who could be trained in the provinces. Given the dire situation, the shortage of midwives had to be remedied urgently. The community Midwifery Education (CME) Program was created. |
| Keywords: | maternal mortality, midwifery, education, community midwifery education program, midwife, midwives, health services |
| Date: | 2014–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:hnpkbs:93546&r=cwa |