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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador.

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Sparrow, Robert; Calero, Calero, C. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and … facilitate households in consumption smoothing by reducing vulnerability to economic shocks. Our results show that remittances … that aggregate shocks are associated with increased work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when …

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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador.

Calero, C.; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

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Absorbing external shocks : the Gulf crisis, international migration linkages and the Indian economy, 1990 (with special reference to the impact on Kerala)

Saith, Saith, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991

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Absorbing external shocks : the Gulf crisis, international migration linkages and the Indian economy, 1990 (with special reference to the impact on Kerala)

SAITH, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991

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Human well-being : concepts and conceptualizations

Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2004

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Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Grimm, Michael - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simply approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows a...

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Nussbaum's capabilities approach in perspective : purposes, methods and sources for an ethics of human development

Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2003

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What is the capability approach?: its core, rationale, partners and dangers

Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2006

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Problem- and policy-analyis for human development: Sen in the light of Dewey, Myrdal, Streeten, Stretton and Haq.

Gasper, Des - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

Much of Amartya Sen’s work has been directly policy-related, but his methodology of policy analysis has not been explained in detail. Action-related social science involves value-imbued procedures that guide the numerous unavoidable choices. This theme was explored earlier by authors close to...

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Human rights, human needs, human development, human security: relationships between four international 'human' discourses.

Gasper, Des - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

Human rights, human development and human security form increasingly important, partly interconnected, partly competitive and misunderstood ethical and policy discourses. Each tries to humanize a pre-existing and unavoidable major discourse of everyday life, policy and politics; each has emerged...

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