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REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO …GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …
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This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is … imperative for overall development. This paper proposes a new formula to analyse human deprivation by the help of poverty line …
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reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to …Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …
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Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...
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, to choose how to allocate technological inputs. A technology choices model is developed, where scarce scientific … resources are alternatively allocated to basic science activities and to applied technology uses. We find that saddle path … objective function, that is, for a second-order Taylor series approximation of a felicity function regarding technology …
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The relations between the riches of nations and the riches of Productive Knowledge (Technology) gains increasing … production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge, gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but … technology itself is the product of mental labor. In support of this assertion, a simple model of growth based on productive …
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workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is …
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After decades of slow growth since Independence from the British Raj, Indian economy registered its own small miracle, when growth rate of GDP per capita surpassed the long term growth rate of many advanced economies. What caused this miracle? In this paper, we search for an answer in the...
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It is assumed that performance of production system can be described with the three variables: amount of production equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function can be specified as the known Cobb- Douglas production...
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The diffusion of modern, efficient technology has far-reaching consequences for the geography of economic activity … favorable to the rapid spread of new technology. The first states that latecomer advantage allows developing countries to … diffuse new technology faster than developed countries. The second claim, widely articulated by advocates of neo …
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