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From flying Geese to leading Dragons : new opportunities and strategies for structural transformation in developing countries
Lin, Justin Yifu - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Economic development is a process of continuous industrial and technological upgrading in which any country, regardless of its level of development, can succeed if it develops industries that are consistent with its comparative advantage, determined by its endowment structure. The secret winning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143719
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Is there such thing as middle class values ? Class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America
Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, Florencia - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. This paper investigates the relation between class (measured by position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366269
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Reputation matters : spillover effects in the enforcement of US SPS measures
Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes; Maur, Jean-Christophe - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
This paper uses a novel dataset on United States food import refusals to show that reputation is an important factor in the enforcement of sanitary and phytosanitary measures. The strongest reputation effect comes from a country's own history of compliance in relation to a particular product....
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastian; Cruces, Guillermo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009394288
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Relative deprivation, reference groups and the assessment of standard of living
Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
This paper proposes two new indices of relative deprivation, derived from an extension of the concept of the generalized Gini for the measurement of distributional change. Population- and income-weighted relative deprivation indices are then defined and, using panel data from the Consortium of...
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Income shocks reduce human capital investments : evidence from five east European countries
Dasgupta, Basab; Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
This paper empirically investigates whether households affected by income shocks cope by reducing human capital investments. The analysis uses Crisis Response Surveys conducted in Armenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Turkey during 2009 and 2010. A propensity score matching technique is...
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Troubling tradeoffs in the Human Development Index
Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010
The 20th Human Development Report has introduced a new version of its famous Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI aggregates country-level attainments in life expectancy, schooling and income per capita. Each year's rankings by the HDI are keenly watched in both rich and poor countries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738813
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Long-run effects of democracy on income inequality : evidence from repeated cross-sections
Balcazar, Carlos Felipe - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …-monotonic: inequality ?rst increases with the stock of democracy before falling. The paper also presents evidence that education may be a …
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History of events and life-satisfaction in transition countries
Dabalen, Andrew; Paul, Saumik - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Using Life in Transition Survey data for 27 transition countries, the findings of this paper suggest that higher life satisfaction is correlated with lesser experience of unpleasant events such as labor market shock or economic distress, mostly in the recent past. Social capital such as trust,...
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Fifteen years of inequality in Latin America : how have labor markets helped ?
Azevedo, Joao Pedro; Davalos, Maria Eugenia; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Household income inequality has declined in Latin America in the past decades, contributing significantly to poverty … these inequality trends, few studies have analyzed more closely the labor market dynamics that have led to a decline in … total income inequality in some countries, but also to an increase in others. Using household survey data for a sample of 15 …
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