This paper explores the welfare implications of a securities transaction tax when informed traders act under short … when informed traders act under short-term objectives, a subsidy on short-term trade can improve welfare. This is because … of a tax on market liquidity and welfare for all market participants. …

isolation and subjective welfare. This is achieved by examining how distance to markets and proximity to large urban centers … affect responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Controlling for migration, results show that isolation …

What drives migration and remittance behaviour in South Africa, and what are the implications for public policy? This … longitudinal data spanning 1993 to 2004 from KwaZula-Natal province. Findings generally accord with expectations if migration is a … receipt of public transfer income raises the likelihood of migration (most likely because migration is costly and households …

farming, local non-farming and temporary migration activites. The returns to non-farming greatly exceed those to farming, for …

of migration, and to examine the size and nature of the pool of potential rural-urban migrants.  An attempt is also made … to project the rural and urban labour force and migration forward to 2020, on the basis of the 2005 one per cent …

policies.  The overall impact, however, is uncertain.  This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial … crises were, the net outcome of colonial times was a significant progress in nutrition and health. …

also at educational and health aspirations.  Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the … aspired to education.  However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when …

Using new and unique panel data, we investigate the role of long-term health and childhood malnutrition in schooling …' performance on mathematics and Hindi tests, we examine the role of the endogeneity of health caused by omitted variables bias and … estimators.  We find evidence of a positive causal effect of long-term health measured as height-for-age z-score (HAZ) on test …