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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Monetary transmission in low income countries
... Many low-income countries are characterized by poorly- defined property rights, which inhibits the buying and selling of real ...a low risk of predation, either by the government or by other ...
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Obstetric fistula in low‐income countries
... Vesicovaginal fistula Objective: To identify, survey, and systematically review the current knowledge regarding obstetric fistula as a public health problem in low-income countries from the ...
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Health Economics for Low-Income Countries
... in low- income countries, where formal health insurance schemes are limited to tiny fractions of the population in urban ...in low-income countries because the bulk of health ...
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Financing health in low-income countries
... in low-income countries Poverty magnifies the need for health care while shrinking the capacity to finance ...it. Low-income countries face 56 percent of the global disease burden ...
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Health Financing in Low Income Countries
... in low-income countries and fragile environments, there are many short-term challenges to the implementation of these systems – such as a weak administration systems and small formal ...
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Health insurance in low-income countries
... expenditure in only six countries worldwide, and in low-income countries coverage rates are below ten per cent of the population. 16 The inequity of PHI Although PHI can increase financial ...
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The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries
... in low-income countries to investigate this possibility; most of these data are on healthcare providers who practice in the private sector on a fee-for-service ...receive low quality of care, ...
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Water and sanitation for all in low-income countries
... In low-income countries it is a different ...in low-income countries, explaining the barriers that prevent access for vulnerable users and gives an overview of inclusive design ...
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Fiscal Policy Design in Low-Income Countries
... The preceding paragraph sketched how the government’s fiscal stance might be determined ex ante, on the basis of best projections and judgement. In practice, low- income countries face unusually high ...
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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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Methods of nutrition surveillance in low-income countries
... in low-income countries use stratified, multistage cluster ...developing countries [34] and have been validated for estimating nutritional status ...
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Returns to education in low income countries: evidence for Africa
... of low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa would be equally ...African countries for which complete time series are available, 10 show at least one 5-year period where attainment rates ...
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The effect of trade with low-income countries on U.S. industry
... June 2008 Abstract When labor-abundant nations grow, their exports increase more in labor-intensive sectors than inc apital-intensive sectors. We utilize this sectoral difference in how exports are affected by growth to ...
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Obstacles to Increasing Tax Revenues in Low Income Countries
... in low income countries, the most evident are: the large amounts of potential tax that are given away routinely by governments in the form of unjustified ‘tax incentives’; the under-taxation of land ...
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Trade Liberalization, Agriculture, and Poverty in Low-income Countries
... for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of ...for countries of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa in particular, both without and with their involvement in the MTN reform ...
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A Systematic Review of Neurosurgical Care in Low-Income Countries.
... OR low-and-middle-income-countries OR low-to-middle-income-countries OR LMIC OR "Low-income country" OR "Low-income countries" OR ...
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Avenues for Export Diversification: Issues for Low Income Countries
... why countries such as Kenya exhibit a much lower number of bilateral trade flows for the given products that they export than countries with higher levels of income per capita? Said differently, why ...
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Monetary policy in low income countries: the case of Uganda
... 5.1 Introduction Many macroeconomic and financial time-series variables that are used in quantitative ma- croeconomic models may be subject to a number of regime-switching events that could influence the data-generating ...
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Challenges for Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries
... Keywords: financial stability, stress testing, systemic risk, low-income countries, macroprudential policy, IMF Dimitri Demekas is Assistant Director at the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets ...
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