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GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development encompasses comprehensive issues like health, education, equality, and liveability while growth is too narrow a concept. This paper analyses the growth and development experience...

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The Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) : Mechanism and Uses

Usman, Syaikhu; Mawardi, M. Sulton; Poesoro, Adri; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

This study aims to analyze the management of the Specific Allocation Fund (DAK). The three largest DAK-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts. This paper was compiled based on the results of in-depth...

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Removing poverty and inequality in India: the role of infrastructure

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this association is different across types of infrastructure and regions. The present paper explores the multidimensional association between infrastructure and poverty in India in a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109559

Convergence and Inequality : the case of Western Balkan countries.

OUARDIGHI, JALAL EL; KAPETANOVIC, RABIJA SOMUN- - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2007

This paper analyses the convergence process of inequality in income among five Balkan countries in the 1989-2005 period … approach is to consider the convergence of country contributions to the international income inequality. The model allows … simultaneously to test the convergence process of income and inequality. The results indicate a real convergence process between …

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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier

Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

An economy can improve its technology level through two channels -- imitating from the world technology frontier and innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based on the endogenous ability-driven skill acquisition...

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Has the empire struck back? ‘new paradigm’ globalisation or return to classical imperialism?

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

This article is a prepublication transcript of ‘Has the Empire Struck Back?’ in Albritton, R, Makoto Itoh, Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds) Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization, pp195-215. London: McMillan. ISBN 0 33375 316 X The paper conducts an empirical...

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Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1070 to 1990

Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the...

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Sustainable Heterogeneity: Inequality, Growth, and Social Welfare in a Heterogeneous Population

Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper studies social welfare in a heterogeneous population under the criteria of efficiency and sustainable heterogeneity. As is well known, heterogeneity in time preference results in substantial inequality. This paper shows that, even if households have heterogeneous preferences, there is...

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Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries

Bah, El-hadj M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Dierences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross- country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...

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Health Effects of Job Insecurity among Employees in Swiss General Population

DOMENIGHETTI, Gianfranco; D'AVANZO, Barbara; BISIG, Brigitte - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 1999

Objectives. To investigate at national level the association between health and the social distress in which the whole employed population is plunged as a consequence of job insecurity. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. Switzerland. Subjects. Individuals working full or part time as...

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