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"Waste in the Inner City: Asset or Assault?"

Ackerman, Frank; Mirza, Sumreen - EconWPA - 2001

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A Model of Demographic and Economic Processe Interaction

Olenev, Nicholas; Sarancha, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003

in education, (ii) the production level depends on the education level, and (iii) the pollution ia directly prportional …

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Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and overseas. This paper includes comparisons of the arrangements for managing water rights against accepted best practice principles for South Au stralia, Queensland, NSW, Victoria...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556157

Industrialization and Infant Mortality

Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2005

. At the same time, pollution from factories appears quite harmful to infants. The overall effect was slightly higher …

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POLLUTION AND WELFARE IN THE PRESENCE OF INFORMAL SECTOR: IS THERE ANY TRADE-OFF?

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

the informal manufacturing sector creates pollution, higher the use of informal sector product, higher is the pollution … created and higher the discrepancy between actual and permissible levels of pollution, so that the emission tax payable by the … formal sector is also higher. The efficiency of a representative worker is inversely related to the level of pollution. In …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

Nigeria is going through a difficult political and economic transition after decades of independence.Yet, Nigeria remains a society rich in cultural, linguistic, religious, ethnic and political diversity. Today, the average Nigerian struggles hard to make ends meet; sees himself or herself as...

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The Rise in Returns to Education and the Decline in Household Savings

Chanda, Areendam - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the consequences of rising returns to human capital investment on the personal savings rate. Over the past two decades, the return to college education has increased relative to high school education leading economists to argue the presence of 'skill biased technological...

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Growth and Convergence across the U.S: Evidence from County-Level Data

Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

We use U.S. county data (3,058 observations) and 41 conditioning variables to study growth and convergence. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV we report on the full sample and metro, non-metro, and 5 regional samples: (1) OLS yields convergence rates around 2 percent; 3SLS yields 6–8 percent; (2)...

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Health Economics : some stylized facts

ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076927

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