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I illustrate the variety of approaches to development issues microeconomists employ, focusing on studies that …
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The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
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Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate … further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant …
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potential advantage of being able to bring its own historical experience in development to bear. …
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We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
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development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …, and/or nutritional improvements that are the result of economic development and growth. …
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Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22% of households to send a seasonal migrant, their...
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among women, while child survival and schooling increased, and household physical assets were 25 percent greater per adult …
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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 … between economic growth and human development. …
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Recent literature has contrasted Human Development, described as the ultimate goal of the development process, with … economic growth, described as an imperfect proxy for more general welfare, or as a means toward enhanced human development …. This debate has broadened the definitions and goals of development but still needs to define the important interrelations …
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