Similar Search Results

Caught between necessity and feasibility

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Pellegrini, Pellegrini, L.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2014

. This paper provides such an analysis. We use data from rural Rwanda to examine the effects of access to bio digesters on … energy-related expenditures and consumption of traditional fuels. We find that participation in Rwanda’s National Domestic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936833

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. Considering the high rate of unemployment (especially the youth unemployment) and poverty in most countries in the region employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210410

Does inequality in health impede growth?

Grimm, Michael - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. The empirical part of the paper uses an original cross-national panel data set covering 62 low and middle income countries over the period 1985 to 2007. I find a substantial and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210413