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The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't ; an African case study

Grootaert, Christiaan; Kanbur, Ravi; Oh, Gi-taik - 1995

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Cole, Harold L. - 2004

Latin American countries are the only Western countries that are poor and that aren't gaining ground on the United States. This paper evaluates why Latin America has not replicated Western economic success. We find that this failure is primarily due to TFP differences. Latin America's TFP gap is...

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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development : A Human Capital Perspective

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2004

inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures -- family-income inequality …, income-group inequality, and the Gini coefficient. In this context, we also reexamine the "Kuznets hypothesis" concerning the … relation between income growth and inequality …

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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences

Caselli, Francesco - 2004

Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production and efficiency. It answers the question "how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to...

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The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment

Alsan, Marcella - 2004

We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and significant effect on such inflows for low- and middle-income countries. This finding is...

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Do Institutions Cause Growth?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...

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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract

Benabou, Roland - 2004

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the exporting' of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

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Voice and Growth : Was Churchill Right?

Lindert, Peter H. - 2003

The debate over whether political democracy is the least bad regime, as Churchill once said, remains unresolved because history has been ignored or misread, and because recent statistical studies have not chosen the right tests. Using too little historical information, and mistaking formal...

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...

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Choosing a Human Capital Measure : Educational Attainment Gaps and Rankings

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2015

According to the World Bank and the United Nations, human capital is the largest component of human wealth for most countries in the world. There is no question that human capital is critical to individual and society well-being and both present and future growth. This presentation draws upon an...

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