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Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...

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Will Latin America Now Put a Stop to "Stop-and-Go"?

Ranis, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper raises the question whether the current wave of macro-economic and structural reforms in Latin America should be viewed as a decisive change in the Continent's long-term development strategy or as part of but another stop-go cycle for which the Continent has been known in the past.

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Economic Growth and Human Development

Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

This paper explores the links between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, the other, from human development to economic growth. The importance of various links in each chain are explored empirically with the help of...

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Economic Growth and Human Development

Ranis, G.; Ramirez, A.; Stewart, F. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

This paper explores thelinks between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, the other, from human development to economic growth. The importance of various links in each chain are explored empirically with the help of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783474

A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

child mortality. A second group, of “outsiders”, were prevented from marrying. Many, especially the males, left the … community; those who stayed contributed to growing illegitimacy and associated levels of infant and child mortality that were …

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Mortality in the North Dublin Union During the Great Famine

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Grada, Cormac O - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

Responsibility for the tremendous excess mortality associated with the Great Irish Famine of 1846-51 is a continuing … lack of detailed information on how well relief efforts performed at a local level. Excess mortality ranged from one … administrative records. We use those records to study the Union's day-to-day functioning during the famine and to estimate mortality …

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