Low Income Countries
Lost revenues in low income countries
... The responsibility for these revenue losses lies partly with foreign and partly with domestic actors. Multinational companies are depriving governments of revenues by failing to pay fair taxes. Many companies also ...
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An introduction to Health Insurance for Low Income Countries
... most low income countries make collection of insurance contributions more difficult and costly and many of these groups will find it difficult to ...
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Low-Income Countries' Access to Private Debt Markets
... to low-income ...most low-income countries as being highly prone to debt distress, given their vulnerability to large adverse shocks, along with weak governance and macroeconomic ...in ...
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Avenues for Export Diversification: Issues for Low Income Countries
... in low-income ...makes countries less vulnerable to adverse terms of trade shocks by stabilizing export revenues (Ghosh and Ostry, 1994); makes it easier to channel positive terms of trade shocks ...
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The dynamic implications of debt relief for low-income countries
... motivates low-income countries to borrow more, consume more, and invest less over ...poor countries face incentives to borrow unsustain- ably to finance consumption and wait for another relief ...
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The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries
... industrialized countries, and is unlikely to do so in the low-income ...PRGF countries for many years. Of the 20 countries with PRGF programs in 2002-03, 12 were on their third, fourth, ...
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Model for Service Delivery for Developmental Disorders in Low-Income Countries
... abstract As in many low-income countries, the treatment gap for developmental disorders in rural Pakistan is near 100%. We integrated social, technological, and business innovations to develop and ...
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Project finance as a driver of economic growth in low income countries
... sector. Countries receiving foreign capital inflows should realize that the quality of capital matters more than its ...equal. Countries with underdeveloped financial sectors should therefore focus on safe ...
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Innovation in low income countries: A survey report
... of low-income countries, do foreign firms also participate in R&D investment in the host economies? Do they behave differently in sourcing innovation compared with domestic firms? This chapter ...
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Does Labor Market Hysteresis Hold in Low Income Countries?
... in low income countries while accounting for structural break in the unemployment ...in low income countries will return back to natural rate of unemployment in the long run ...
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Developing nephrology services in low income countries: a case of Tanzania
... per patient at Muhimbili National Hospital [30]. The price for each dialysis session in Tanzania ranges from USD 120–150. Funding for dialysis in Tanzania is through National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), ini- tially ...
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Monetary transmission in low income countries
... most low-income countries intervene heavily in foreign exchange markets, there is some evidence to suggest that the exchange rate channel may be operative in at least some LICs that allow more scope ...
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Health Economics for Low-Income Countries
... The econometric methodology proposed by Rosenzweig and Schultz (1983) can be used to generate information that policy-makers need to design and implement programs for increasing utilization of prenatal and immunization ...
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A perspective on the development and sustainability of nutrition surveillance in low-income countries
... in low-income countries is also recognised ...any low-income country could or wanted to pro- vide, and second that the systems analysis was too compli- ...
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Monetary policy in low income countries: the case of Uganda
... This dissertation contributes to the literature on monetary policy in low-income coun- tries. It discusses the fact that monetary policy models used for policy analysis and forecasting in LICs are applied ...
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3 ON THE ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY OF LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES 1
... It is argued that an indicator of structural economic vulnerability across LI Cs can be constructed with three main components namely (1) natural shocks proxied by instability in agri[r] ...
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Challenges for Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries
... If identifying common characteristics and making broad-brush generalizations about the LICs as a group is tricky, providing a recipe book for policy-makers in individual countries would be even more questionable. ...
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Constraints to Business Growth in Low- and Medium-Income Countries
... developing countries, Wang (2016, 172) finds that small and medium enterprises are ...in low income countries is less than half of what it is for a medium sized firm and about a third compared ...
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Improving pregnancy outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
... some low-income countries today. In many low-income countries, until re- cently, most often the birth attendant was a traditional birth attendant (TBA), traditionally a community ...
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Pneumonia in low and middle income countries: progress and challenges
... in low and middle income countries, despite advances in preventative and management ...in low income ...many low and middle income countries remains an ...many ...
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