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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population
Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004
The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in two regional terms, i.e.: kabupaten and kotamadya. It is interestingly found that the rank in all kabupaten respect to the population does not have fat tail properties, while in...
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Supply Side Structural Change
Cordoba, Juan C. - EconWPA - 2002
The interest rate and the rate of economic growth are often regarded as roughly constant as economies grow. Moreover, the agricultural sector and rural population typically shrink. We show that an otherwise standard growth model that includes a backward and an advanced sector can account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062745
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Modi di pensare e vedere la città mediterranea
Giuseppe, Pace - EconWPA - 2003
This essay attempt to summarise what is known about the mediterranean cities and their relationship to the so-called Global Cities, principally based on immaterial fluxes, which offer a growing centrality to cities networks and communication systems. A new dualism has sprung, global/local,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119032
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556115
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556166
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556217
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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 … vs. Bihar, and Shandong vs. Sichuan provide nice examples of such outcomes in India and China. Higher inflation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556224
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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