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Borrowing to keep up (with the joneses) : inequality, debt, and conspicuous consumption

Banuri, Sheheryar; Nguyen, Ha - 2020

The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous … finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing …

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Consumption in the time of covid-19 : evidence from UK transaction data

Surico, Paolo; Känzig, Diego; Hacıoǧlu Hoke, Sinem - 2020

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High rural population density Africa – What are the growth requirements and who participates?

Mellor, John W. - In: Food Policy 48 (2014) C, pp. 66-75

A large and increasing proportion of agricultural growth in Africa must come from continuous gains in land productivity in areas of high population density and hence with already relatively high yields. What that requires is analogous to the green revolution in Asia. Several features...

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Does the synergy among agriculture, industry, and the service industry alleviate rural poverty? : evidence from China

Yang, Geyao; Zhou, Changchun; Zhang, Jiekuan - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 11, pp. 1417-1421

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Agriculture and development: A brief review of the literature

Dethier, Jean-Jacques; Effenberger, Alexandra - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 2, pp. 175-205

After 20 years of neglect by international donors, agriculture is now again in the headlines because high food prices are increasing food insecurity and poverty. In the coming years, it will be essential to increase food productivity and production in developing countries, especially in...

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The demographic dividend in Sub-Saharan Africa : two issues that need more attention

May, John F.; Turbat, Vincent - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 83 (2017) 1, pp. 77-84

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The one-child policy: A macroeconomic analysis

Liao, Pei-Ju - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 49-62

This paper studies the effects of China's one-child policy. Using a calibrated general-equilibrium model, a benchmark with a fertility constraint in place is compared to a counterfactual experiment without the fertility constraint. The results indicate that the implementation of the one-child...

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China's demographic transition : a quantitative analysis

Yin, Yongkun - In: European economic review : EER 160 (2023), pp. 1-20

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DOES CONTRACEPTION BENEFIT WOMEN? STRUCTURE, AGENCY, AND WELL-BEING IN RURAL MEXICO

Beutelspacher, Austreberta Nazar; Martelo, Emma Zapata; … - In: Feminist Economics 9 (2003) 2-3, pp. 213-238

The authors of this paper examine Amartya Sen's contributions to the concept of human well-being from a gender perspective and argue that this concept is particularly useful for explaining women's decisions on contraceptive use. The study draws on data collected in six rural communities of...

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Gender analysis of family planning: Beyond the feminist vs. population control debate

Smyth, Ines - In: Feminist Economics 2 (1996) 2, pp. 63-86

This paper tries to assess whether the recent adoption by population establishment agencies of feminist language and concerns also embodies feminist visions and values, or whether it hides fundamental differences. In particular, the paper warns that this adoption may simply be an expression of...

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