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Economic growth, employment and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa
Messkoub, Messkoub, M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008
This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210410
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Beyond the informal sector : labour absorption in Latin American urban economies : the case of Colombia
Uribe-Echevarria, Uribe-Echevarria, F. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730790
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Beyond the informal sector : labour absorption in Latin American urban economies : the case of Colombia
URIBE - ECHEVARRIA, F. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442174
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Economic growth, employment and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa
Messkoub, Mahmood - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008
This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005232841
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837454
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005232837
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Understanding the diversity of conceptions of well-being and quality of life
Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837471
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Understanding the diversity of conceptions of well-being and quality of life
Gasper, Des - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602813
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Natural disasters impact, factors of resilience and development: A meta-analysis of the macroeconomic literature
Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van; Lazzaroni, Lazzaroni, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
We systematize recent macroeconomic empirical literature on the direct and indirect impact of natural disasters providing a meta-analysis of 20 studies published during 2002-2013. We show that the disagreement between these studies is caused by the empirical design, the estimation technique and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730517
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Macroeconomics of natural disasters
Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van; Lazzaroni, Lazzaroni, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
We use the case of the impact of natural disasters to analyse strengths and weaknesses of meta-analysis in an emerging research field. Macroeconomists have published on this issue since 2002 (we identified 22 studies to date). The results of the studies are contradictory and therefore the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149217