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Human capital investment and long-term poverty reduction in rural Mexico
Winters, Paul; Chiodi, Vera - HAL - 2008
By focusing on human capital investment, the Mexican Oportunidades program will influence the economic choices of the rural poor. To understand how beneficiaries may alter their behavior as a result of this intervention, this paper uses administrative data to analyze the economic activities of...
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La descentralización y sus efectos en las políticas portuarias en Latinoamérica
Trujillo, María Victoria Flores - HAL - 2013
Manzanillo en México respectivamente; elegidos por manejar el mayor volumen de carga comercial de cada país. El estudio se …
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Addressing the climate change sustainable development nexus: the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships
Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans - HAL - 2012
While calls are being made to deal with the linkages between climate change and sustainable development to arrive at an integrated policy, concrete steps in this direction have been very limited so far. One of the possible instruments through which both issues may be approached simultaneously is...
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The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from US Coastal counties
Strobl, Eric - HAL - 2009
We estimate for the first time the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a novel hurricane destruction index that is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794023
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The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - HAL - 2009
labour demand framework. Our results show that destruction due to hurricanes causes on average an increase in county level …
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Capital misallocation and credit constraints: Theory and evidence from natural
Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2011
This article builds a model of financial frictions to explain the aftermath of natural disasters. In constrained economies, after a large shock on capital, affected entrepreneurs might lose access to credit together with their stock of capital. Investment does not flow to high-returns projects....
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Natural natural disasters and economic disruption
Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2010
The cost of natural calamities is not limited to direct capital losses. Economies in the wake of severe shocks experience important slowdowns. I construct an exhaustive dataset of objective measures on cyclones and earthquakes worldwide between 1980 and 2006 and complement existing reports on...
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Do tropical typhoons smash community ties? Theory and evidence from Vietnam
Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2010
Natural disasters trigger large inequalities between affected households and the rest of the community. The extent to which villages compensate for these shocks allegedly depends on the pressure imposed by the group of needy families. I model two major threats to redistribution - (i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739054
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Do remittances dampen the effect of natural disasters on output growth volatility in developing countries?
Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian - HAL - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of natural disasters on the output growth volatility. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilizing a dynamic panel data framework, it uncovers a diminishing macroeconomic destabilizing consequence of natural disasters as remittance inflows rise. It...
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Understanding Mexican High-tech Organizations: A Conceptualization Problem?
Ramirez, Jacob - HAL - 2001
This study investigates the differences between intensive technology and low-tech firms located in Mexico, focusing on … results show that while Mexico is not yet a fully developed technological country. Indeed, technologically intensive firms are … rare cases. Mexico is progressing rapidly towards a technologically developed country in some sectors. Moreover, Mexico …
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