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For Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, but particularly for countries in the Sahel zone, full primary enrolment and … loss in the quality of education. Using data from the "Program on the Analysis of Education Systems" (PASEC) for Niger in …
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Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, manycountries … the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative data, comparable across these countries …, somewhat mixed in Togo (with positive effects in 2nd and negative effects in 5th grade) and negative in Niger. This ordering is …
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In order to have the public funds necessary for its development, Niger is examining the possibility of expanding its … question of the social impacts of taxation. The first micro-macro computable general equilibrium model of Niger's actual …
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Afin de disposer des ressources publiques nécessaires à son développement, le Niger étudie la possibilité d'élargir l …'équilibre général calculable micro-macro de l'économie réelle du Niger, permettant d'analyser l'impact social et de mener une analyse …
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We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...
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the social, the environmental, the governance and the economic sphere and their impact on a viable development in Kabylia …, where the "art of association" is the expression of territoriality. When the governance is bad and/or when there is distrust …
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We study the impact of social capital in both simple theoretical and empirical model with the main assumption is the price of physical capital is a decreasing function of social capital. In our theoretical model, there exists a critical value such that firm will not invest in social capital if...
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This paper investigates the relationship between trust and macroeconomic volatility. In a cross section of countries, we show that higher trust is associated with lower macroeconomic instability. We use the inherited trust of Americans as an instrumental variable of trust in their origin country...
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How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare-access exclusion in the workplace: a financial one (via income) and a legislative one (from the "hukou"). We use 2006 data from a survey of rural migrant workers conducted in five of the most...
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This paper documents the co-evolution of social capital, measured as generalized trust, and financial development over the twentieth century. I use cross generations inherited trust of Americans with foreign ancestors to track trust in their home country in 1913 and 1990. The paper documents a...
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