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La llegada del PT al gobierno brasileño: ¿un cambio de rumbo respecto a las posibilidades de desarrollo del país?
García, Bibiana Medialdea - HAL - 2013
Este trabajo parte de la idea de que la reproducción del subdesarrollo brasileño se explica por la persistencia de un conjunto de elementos que operan como obstáculos de carácter estructural, a los que nos referimos con el nombre de límites estructurales al desarrollo económico....
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On the Move Livelihood Strategies in Northern Ghana
Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2011
The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021747
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Determinants of Internal Migration among Senegalese Youth
HERRERA, Catalina; Sahn, David - HAL - 2013
We analyze the socio-economic determinants of youth decision to internally migrate in Senegal. Young people undertake mostly rural-to-rural and urban-to-urban migrations and over half of them are temporary migrants. Using multinomial logit models, we estimate the role of household and community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899844
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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration
Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - HAL - 2013
We match migration data from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025739
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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Societal Comparison and Social Change of the Family Division of Labour
Barrère-Maurisson, Marie-Agnès - HAL - 2000
In the case of the comparative societal analysis, the methodological problems are not simple methodological questions but of real theoretical questions. One will take the example of an international comparison relating to the division of the paid work and unpaid, to show how should have been...
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Welfare state retrenchment: The partisan effect revisited
Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella; Schumacher, Jan - HAL - 2006
This paper aims to shed light on the role of the "ideology" of political parties in shaping the evolution of the welfare state in 18 developed democracies, by providing empirical findings on the determinants of social programs entitlements and social spending over the period 1981-1999. The paper...
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