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Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This monograph compares the methodologies and progress of the different existing models of information and communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of complementary reforms in government administration and policies. The...

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Diversification and development of the UAE’s economy

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Measuring progress towards global poverty goals: Challenges and lessons from southern Africa

Levine, Sebastian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper draws on the work in Lesotho and Namibia of tracking progress towards cutting poverty in half by 2015, which … is the key poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals. The paper serves at least two purposes. Firstly, it … measuring income poverty using household surveys and poverty lines based on observed consumption patterns. Secondly, it …

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Poverty in India: A Chronological Review on Measurement and Identification

Bandyopadhyay, Kaushik Ranjan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The monographs essentially covers a critical chronological review of the measurement of poverty in India and the … identification of the poverty line over the various five five year plans …

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Managing mobility for human development: the growing salience of mixed migration

Van Hear, Nicholas; Brubaker, Rebecca; Bessa, Thais - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In the analysis of migration a basic distinction is often made between those who chose to move and those who are forced to – that is, between ‘voluntary’ and ‘forced’ migrants. This distinction is maintained in the policy world, where the governance of international migration is shaped...

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Maximising the Development Outcomes of Migration: A Policy Perspective

Chappell, Laura; Glennie, Alex - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

It is becoming increasingly clear that migration can have important impacts upon development. As a result, policymakers are searching for ways to increase migration’s developmental benefits, and decrease its costs. This paper examines the levers at their disposal. We recognise the importance...

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Italy-Albania The migrant as a bridge between two homelands: The role of remittances

Çela, Eralba; Moretti, Eros; Ninka, Eniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

After eighteen years of mass migration of the Albanian population, primarily to Greece and Italy, a question arises. May migrants become potential agents of socio-economic development in their country of origin? This paper focuses on the role and the importance of remittances and their use in...

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Emigration Prospects and Human Capital in the Developing Countries: The Possibility of the Qualitative Brain Gain

Kouni, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we study the net effect of high-skilled emigration. Hence, we elaborate a simple theoretical model that studies the net effect of high-skilled emigration. The result showed that the emigration in the case where the fraction of human capital that emigrates is inferior to the...

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Choix d’une meilleure politique d’émigration : Modélisation de stratégies et simulation du modèle

KOUNI, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The recent brain drain literature showed that the skilled emigration can improve the average level of schooling in developing countries. Indeed, the brain drain issue seems to be at the heart of policy priorities for the source countries. It’s in this context that our interest in this paper...

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