INSTITUTIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND TRADE
Joseph Francois & Miriam Manchin
April 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200705-01
JEL classification: O19, F10, F15
Key words: Exports, trade, institutions, infrastructure, zero-trade, gravity model
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EQUITY AND TRADE POLICY
Joseph Francois & Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
May 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200705-01
JEL classification: F13, O15, D31, D72
Key words: Sen welfare functions, duality, political economy of equity
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WEIGHTING DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY BASED ON PEOPLE’S PRIORITIES: Constructing a Composite Poverty Index for the Maldives
Hans de Kruijk and Martine Rutten
August 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200708-01
JEL classification: D31, D63, I32
Keywords: poverty measures, living standard dimensions, aggregation, composite index, Maldives
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VULNERABILITY AND POVERTY DYNAMICS IN THE MALDIVES
Hans de Kruijk and Martine Rutten
August 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200708-02
JEL classification: C23, C25, I32
Keywords: vulnerability, income poverty dynamics, Maldives, Logit regression, probability of escaping from or falling into poverty
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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MEDICAL MIGRATION: an Overview of the Literature
Martine Rutten
August 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200708-03
JEL classification: F22, I1
Keywords: medical migration, brain drain, doctor migration, nurse migration
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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MEDICAL MIGRATION : a Receiving Country’s Perspective
Martine Rutten
August 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200708-04
JEL classification: I1, F22
Keywords: medical migration, immigrant health care workers, migrant nurses,
migrant doctors
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THE CONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION OF COMBINED CROSS-SECTION
AND TIMES SERIES INEQUALITY DATASETS
Joseph Francois and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
August 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200708-05
JEL classification: D31, D80, O15
Key words: Income distribution datasets, inequality trends, Lorenz curve
estimation, poverty estimation
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ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF AN ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Luis Rivera and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
October 2007
IIDE discussion paper 200710-01
JEL classification: F13, F15, C68
Key words: EU-CAAA FTA, trade policy, free trade agreement, CGE models, bananas, sugar
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NONLINEAR PANEL ESTIMATION OF TIME-VARYING EFFECTS OF IMPORT QUOTAS
Joseph Francois & Julia Woerz
May 2008
IIDE discussion paper 200805-01
JEL classification: C13, F13
Key words: NTB, ICLS, quadrature, quotas, ATC, MFA, MPEC, gravity model
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TRADE THROUGH FDI: investing in services
Carmen Fillat-Castejón, Joseph Francois & Julia Woerz
May 2008
IIDE discussion paper 200805-02
JEL classification: F10, F14, F21
Key words: FDI, imports, services, panel data, substitution and complementary effects
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