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  Do labor market regulations affect labor earnings in Ecuador?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Although Ecuador may have the most cumbersome labor market regulations in Latin America, these are not a major source of segmentation of the labor market. The reason: the benefits mandated are fully fungible with wages. Ecuadorian labor costs are said to be high because of a large array of mandated benefits.
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  Ghana's Labor Market (1987-92)

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  The rate of return to education in Ghana increases with higher education and work experience. The return for each additional year of schooling ranges from 4 to 6 percent, quite high for a Sub-Saharan African country.
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  Improving India's Saving Performance

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  The double task of poverty alleviation and maintaining pace with fast-growing neighbor countries in Asia has prompted the Indian government to announce the target of achieving 7 percent annual growth or more over the next 10 years. Against this background, this paper discusses recent trends in Indian saving behavior and reviews policy options to increase domestic saving.
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  Social Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  The principal message of this study is that good macroeconomic policies and measures—combined with relevant sectoral policies and appropriate public expenditure allocation—provide a favorable environment for accelerating savings and investment, both necessary for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction (Figure 1).
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  Indonesia's rural finance system: the role of the state and private institutions

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  Study analyses how effectively organizations have performed their role as agents of Indonesia’s economic growth (availability of resources, volume and quality of investments, resource allocation and appropriation).
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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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  Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999

  This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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  From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.

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