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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"Low-income countries"”.
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Monetary policy in low income countries: the case of Uganda
… the implementation of monetary policy in low income countries (LICs). These include the role of inflation persistence, financial frictions and the potential impact of regime-changes or large shocks. The analysis is applied to data for the Ugandan economy. Chapter 3 extends the quantile …
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The impact of remittances on the monetary transmission mechanism in low-income countries
… of this research is to explore how the inflow of remittances affects the different monetary transmission channels in remittance-receiving economies and what other factors influence remittances in altering their effects on monetary transmission mechanisms. The first two studies were …
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Transmission Linked to Structural Vulnerability: How Low-Income Countries Endured the Great Recession
… throughout the global system. Examining two countries, Bangladesh and Zambia, this project shows that low-income countries with relatively little integration also saw negative impacts. This occurred through three main transmission mechanisms: trade flows, rising prices and financial flows …
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Sustainability of Rural Water Services in Low-Income Countries: Case studies in sub-Saharan Africa
… water supply services in various developing countries. However, the provision of such services to date is largely unsustainable and it is unlikely that the Millennium Development Goal target for safe drinking water in rural areas will be met. This is particularly so in sub-Saharan Africa, …
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The politics of accountability at the World Bank and IMF: reforming engagements with low-income countries
The accountability relationships that surround the operations of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are a key feature of global politics. These institutions continue to face criticism from both state and non-state actors over perceived ‘democratic deficit’, and yet the frameworks that …
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Elucidating fecal contamination exposure in low-income countries, the contribution from child feces disposal practices and soil ingestion, and links to child health
… water, sanitation, and hygiene programs in low-income countries often focus on improving water delivery and toilet/latrine infrastructure to reduce pathogen exposure, but child exposure to fecal contamination can remain common after these types of improvements. The overarching goal of this …
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Three Essays on the Generalized System of (Trade) Preferences
… trade liberalization program in which developed countries offer non-reciprocal tariff reductions (tariff preferences) on certain products imported from designated developing and least developed countries. GSP is considered an important tool in the World Trade Organization's approach to …
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Essays in International Macroeconomics
… the distribution of foreign investment across countries. I do so by adopting a portfolio allocation approach to risk, that is widely used in empirical finance, to complement more traditional analyses of foreign capital flows across countries. I capture the portfolio diversification motive by a …
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Essays on Medium-Term Economic Cycles and Real-Financial Linkages
… GDP per capita for 30 developed and developing countries since c.1870. The second paper (‘Endogenous Growth and the Financial Accelerator over Medium-term Business Cycles’) studies the mechanism of medium-term cycles in real economy and financial sector, with the structure model. The third paper …
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Influence of risk perceptions and social context on working for water herbicide sprayers' Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) compliance in the Western Cape of South Africa
… workers and farmers to herbicides in middle- and low-income countries is an important public health issue with a significant negative impact on their short- and long-term health status. Besides the possible acute effects, long term exposures to low doses of herbicides leads to accumulation in the …
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External Financing of Economic Development in Africa
… economic development that is applicable to the low income countries is a handicap in analyzing the problem of "underdevelopment". It cannot readily be concluded from this, however, that all partial analyses of specific development problems in the poor countries are futile. On the contrary, much …
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Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa
… risk preferences of small-scale farmers in low-income countries. Resource-poor farmers have often been described as being inherently risk averse given their tendency to under-invest in risky yet profitable crop technologies. In contrast to this dominant view we argue that it is unlikely that …
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Three Essays on Bank Capital Structure, Performance, and Financial Inclusion
… inclusion, and distinguish between high and low income countries for 131 countries over 2005-2014. Our evidence shows that bank performance is negatively associated with credit deepening and positively with the number of ATMs. However, we find a positive association between different …
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Telepractice in the Communication Treatment of Individuals with Post-stroke Aphasia: Systematic Review
… to underserved populations in middle/low-income countries or rural areas via telepractice is warranted. The primary objectives of this study are to systematically review literature on telepractice of speech-language pathology services for PWA, with a focus to synthesize and analyze …
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Essays on Financial Market Development and Economic Growth
… economic growth appears to differ between high-income and middle- and low-income countries.
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Coping behaviour of low-income country researchers in global health collaborations with high-income country researchers
… inequality that biomedical researchers based in low-income countries currently experience across key stages of collaboration with researchers based in high-income countries and the extent to which these conditions determine specific individual behavioural responses. Structural inequalities in …
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Does Country-Specific Globalization Impact Private Loan Contracts?
… the impact that operating in specific foreign countries has on the bank loan contracts of multinational companies. While previous research has shown that increased firm globalization leads to a lower cost of bank debt, I find that this relationship is attenuated when firms operate in countries …
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Enabling and regulating private sector provision of malaria services in three districts of Western Cameroon
… private providers of public health services in low income countries. The study’s framework involves the Ministry of Health as a principal who authorises the private sector as an agent to provide malaria services to populations, in exchange for mutually agreed rewards and in the context of …
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