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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930231
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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930218
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Urbanism, an overview
Palma, André De; Guimard, Alexandre - HAL - 2014
Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899733
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Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana
Jedwab, Rémi; Moradi, Alexandre - HAL - 2011
. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738826
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The century of education
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2009
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930177
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Education inequalities and the Kuznets curves: a global perspective since 1870
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2007
This paper presents a new dataset on educational attainment (primary, secondary and tertiary schooling) at the world level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930213
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The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, … - HAL - 2008
This paper uses a unique database that provides value-added, employment, and population levels for the entire set of French departments for the years 1860, 1930, and 2000. These data cover three sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, and services. This allows us to study the evolution of spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930232
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Asian Mediterranean
Gipouloux, François - HAL - 2009
Mediterranean is a powerful concept, elaborated by Braudel in his seminal study on The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. It encompasses economic, social and cultural dimensions. In the fourteenth century, Genoa, Venice, Barcelona were global places, controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422038
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Caminos de papel: las controversias monetarias en la Independencia del Perú
Romero, Dionisio De Haro - HAL - 2013
El objeto de la presente ponencia es profundizar en el análisis de la iniciativa monetaria más relevante que el gobierno de San Martín desarrolla durante la guerra de Independencia, El Banco Auxiliar de Papel Moneda. El estudio centra la investigación en el análisis comparativo entre el...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899212
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In Search of the Banking Regulator amid U.S. Financial Reforms of the 1930s
Lacoue-Labarthe, Dominique - HAL - 2014
towards orderly resolution of failing banks in order to protect the economy from the spread of systemic risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899511