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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it …
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. When the externalities on education are very high relatively to the positive externalities on health, the indirect subsidy … policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a … education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can …
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as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of … paper applies new tools to the measure of multidimensional inequalities on wages, education and health. The multidimensional …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755510
between La Réunion and France is persistent in the three dimensions of the HDI: health, education and even more in the …This paper aims at assessing the level of Human Development Index for La Réunion for the years 1985, 1990 and 1995 …-2005. It appears that the region experienced a significant progress of human development during this period. However, the gap …
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We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly describe the main observed de velopments and show that these are rather diverse across countries and developing regions. We subsequently expose the main theoretical mechanisms. We...
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This paper describes the multisectoral macroeconomic model of a small developing economy in transition, in order to highlight linkages between agriculture and the rest of the economy, and consequences of external opening up. Agriculture is a supply sector, sticky in the short range with market...
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from development issues. In addition to the impossibility to get an agreement on rules for quota allocation among all the … parties, this system shows irreconcilable contradictions between climate and development issues. This article aims, starting … from examples of synergies between climate and development, at enunciating bases of an amended Kyoto Protocol which could …
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ones. Second, development is a qualitative process that involves take-offs and thresholds. Such regime changes are eye …-income countries, they would certainly help measuring and monitoring the different stages and dimensions of the development process. …
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