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Maquiladoras and Standard of Living in Mexico Before and After NAFTA
Huato, Julio - EconWPA - 2005
This study assesses the impact across states of for-export, mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants (commonly known as 'maquiladoras') on various measures of standard of living in Mexico, namely literacy rate, school attendance rates, housing characteristics, life expectancy, infant mortality,...
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Una misurazione del benessere nelle regioni italiane
Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004
La limitazione del benessere ai soli aspetti reddituali ignora numerose dimensioni e condizioni fondamentali per il realizzarsi delle potenzialità individuali. Obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di fornire una misura multidimensionale di benessere per le Regioni italiane, che superi la...
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Convergence in Mississippi: A Spatial Approach.
Nica, Mihai - EconWPA - 2004
Mississippi constitutes an interesting case study for analyzing the income convergence process because of several characteristics, such as the fairly large number of counties, its relative homogeneous economy and its low percapita income compared with the rest of the U.S. This study analyzes the...
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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004
offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …
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The Determinants of Economic Well-being:An Application in the Indian States
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of economic well-being. We provide a methodology to compute well-being by aggregating different socio-economic dimensions with factor analysis technique. We also estimate quality of good governance (using latent variable approach) and a...
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Economic Growth, Well-Being and Governance under Economic Reforms: Evidence from Indian States
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005
differential level of development performance across states in India during the last two decades. …
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ECONOMICS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLING INDUSTRY IN KOHIMA, NAGALAND (INDIA)
Mishra, SK; Rio, K - EconWPA - 2005
The enterprise of running private schools has of late assumed the nature of an industry in India. Ever … investment together have contributed to the viability of this industry. In Kohima, the capital city of Nagaland (India), there …
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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short …
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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United … issue of overall inequality as perceived by citizens within a nation. China and India show rising inequality in terms of …, but also leads to disparity in outcomes for populous states with some getting ahead and others falling behind. Maharashtra …
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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556229