In the subsequent spring of 2003, the country experienced a temporary and significant increase in its fertility rate. Using a difference-in-differences design, we exploit the quasi-experimental nature of this episode to investigate the Beckerian trade-off between the quantity and quality of children...
The Governor says one of the things that the multilateral institutions have said is that Fiji should increase interest rates to neutral level which is 3 percent. Ali says in a period when they want the private sector to grow and government’s debt servicing to fall, if the central bank inc...
In fiscal year 2024, the DOJ recovered over $2.9 billion from FCA settlements and judgments, marking a 5% increase over 2023’s total and the highest amount in three years. Recoveries were fueled largely by qui tam lawsuits previously filed by whistleblowers, which contributed to $2.4 billion ...
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For exports to most countries, that de minimis amount is 25 percent, but for exports to countries on the Country Group E:1 list, that de minimis amount is 10 percent. Exports of most items to Cuba are now also subject to the 25 percent de minimis rule. Yet, foreign-made items ...
He says over ninety percent of these visitors were from Australia and the US markets alone. Koya adds as they approach the peak months, they expect these numbers to increase and fuel recovery. The Minister further says with more markets opening up like New Zealand, they expect even more visit...
We control for joint province and year-fixed effects in the city-level baseline regression, and joint industry and year-fixed effects in the firm-level benchmark regression. The regression results show that the coefficient estimates of the cross-product term is significant at the one percent ...
An economic updatereleased last month by Statistics Canadaestimated that Canada added an average of 40,000 new jobs for each month of 2023. In each of those months, however, the working-age population surged by 78,000 —“almost twice the average increase in employment,” statisticians noted...
but total revenue, including Congressional appropriation comes to a mere $3 billion a year. Meanwhile, Congress has cut its funding for NPS by 15 percent over the last 15 years (after factoring inflation), while its backlog of overdue maintenance projects amounts to $12 billion a year (and...
In fiscal year 2024, the DOJ recovered over $2.9 billion from FCA settlements and judgments, marking a 5% increase over 2023’s total and the highest amount in three years. Recoveries were fueled largely by qui tam lawsuits previously filed by whistleblowers, which contributed to $2.4 billion ...