Browsing by Supervisor "Gibson, John"
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An Investigation of the Macroeconomic and Monetary Effects of Dollarization in Eritrea
(University of Waikato, 2013)Most countries of the developing world have voluntarily or involuntarily been involved in using foreign currencies and trapped their economies for either the best or worst outcomes of dollarization. For those countries ... -
Civil conflict and international migration in Nepal
(The University of Waikato, 2020)A growing literature studies the causes and consequences of civil conflict. Several of these studies are of Nepal’s civil conflict that lasted for a decade from 1996. Coincident with this conflict was a surge in work-related ... -
Counting Errors: How Misunderstanding of China's Local Population and Employment Counts Affects Economic Analysis
(University of Waikato, 2015)A confusion over local population counts and employment counts in China persists throughout the economic literature. The existing studies within many branches of economics related to China commonly use the count of people ... -
Distributional Impacts of Interest Free Student Loans
(University of Waikato, 2014)Prior to 2006, New Zealand charged one of the highest rates of interest on student loans in the world; however, in line with the Labour government’s agenda to increase access to tertiary education, this was the year a ... -
Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
(The University of Waikato, 2018)A key contribution of environmental economics to policy making has been to provide empirical indicators of sustainable economic development. An economy is (weakly) sustainable if it saves more than the combined depreciation ... -
The Economic Impacts of Migrant Maids in Malaysia
(University of Waikato, 2011)Demand for migrant maids by households in Malaysia has increased rapidly as more married women choose to participate in the workforce. Simple comparisons of households with maids and those without suggest that hiring maids ... -
Impacts of Household Credit on the Poor in Peri-urban Areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
(University of Waikato, 2011)Access to credit is universally believed to be an effective tool to help the poor out of poverty. Yet the evidence for this has not considered all settings, especially the peri-urban areas of rapidly industrialising Asian ... -
Measuring the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Economic Development in Zambia
(University of Waikato, 2011)Zambia is one of the sub-Saharan African countries with the highest rates of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world. One in seven adults is HIV positive and the epidemic disproportionately affects better educated and wealthy ... -
Poverty impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation in Sri Lanka
(University of Waikato, 2015)There remains controversy over whether trade liberalisation in general, and agricultural trade liberalisation in particular, leads to poverty reduction in developing countries. Since the impacts of agricultural trade ... -
Quality of Life - Impacts from the Family Planning Policy in China
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The relationship between population size, the quality of human capital, and the quality of life, interests social scientists. This topic is particularly important in China, where a previous ‘demographic gift’ is becoming ... -
Quantifying the trade impact of non-tariff measures: Econometric and CGE Analysis
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis focuses on the impact of non-tariff measures (NTMs) on merchandise trade. NTMs are broadly defined as policy measures, other than tariffs, which may have an impact on international trade in goods and services. ... -
The informal sector’s contribution to the economic wellbeing of people in Timor-Leste
(The University of Waikato, 2019)It is widely believed that the informal sector is growing in the modern global economy. When studying who occupies this informal sector and the nature of their business, the universal tendency is to describe the informal ... -
The sensitivity of poverty analysis to dimensionality and distribution sensitivity: Evidence from district level of Pakistan
(The University of Waikato, 2022)An awareness of how the findings from poverty analyses may change following introduction of multidimensional poverty measures is crucial for policy makers. This thesis highlights the changes in results of poverty analysis ... -
The Value of Irrigation Water in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2016)The aim of this thesis is to examine issues pertaining to freshwater quantity in New Zealand agriculture. Currently, freshwater is managed under the Resource Management Act (1991) and the allocation system is essentially ... -
Trends in the factor markets and their effects on labour absorption: A study on the Sri Lankan manufacturing industry
(The University of Waikato, 2004)Nearly one in ten labour force participants is out of work in Sri Lanka currently. This unemployment rate is much higher than that of most countries in the Asian region which have been following economic policies similar ... -
Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh
(The University of Waikato, 2002)Over the last quarter century, the readymade garments industry has emerged as the main export-earning manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. The industry is the first to employ women in large numbers in the formal manufacturing ...
