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Low growth equilibria with low investment in human capital generally tend to persist till an external shock affects the economy. In this paper we use data on Christian missions to proxy a long-lasting educational shock in Africa. We estimate the effect of this shock on the quality of children...
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Low growth equilibria with low investment in human capital generally tend to persist till an external shock affects the economy. In this paper we use data on Christian missions to proxy a long-lasting educational shock in Africa. We estimate the effect of this shock on the quality of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958284
This study looked at the sustainability of the growth and development of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the … transcription, animation, and software development. Doubts about the sustainability of this hypergrowth situation are increasingly …
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On the basis of the UNDP data used to calculate the Human Development Index (HDI), the paper applies a methodology to … determine a different development index able to show disequilibria between the different aspects of development (in this case … income, life expectancy and education). The basic idea is that the concept of total substitutability between the variables …
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Since its implementation in 1990 the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional … development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new … stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to measure socioeconomic development. Until now, the vast majority of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583189
The links between the development of human potential and its various structures on one hand, and economic growth and … development, on the other hand, represent a concern of exceptional importance for contemporary economic theory. Concerning the …
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out of a development trap. …
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …
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Since its implementation in 1990 the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional … development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new … stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to measure socioeconomic development. Until now, the vast majority of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312225
out of a development trap. …
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