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Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land … appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with …

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Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies

Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Martin, Ralf; Mohnen, Myra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

also suggest that green policies might be able to boost economic growth through induced knowledge spillovers. …

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Aggregate growth and the efficiency of labour reallocation

Burgess, Simon; Mawson, Dan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

We consider the potential importance of labour market efficiency for aggregate growth. The idea is that efficient … labour markets move workers more quickly from low to high productivity sites, thereby raising aggregate productivity growth … data on 15 OECD countries, we estimate this and show that it has a significant effect on growth. The results are robust to …

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Financial intermediation, variability and the development process

Carranza, Luis; Galdón-Sánchez, Jose E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

In this paper we have built a model of financial intermediation that explains the GDP variability pattern of an economy during the development process. In our model, per capita is more volatile in the middle-income economies than in both low and high-income economies. We show that, if the model...

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Development thinking at the beginning of the 21st century

Sen, Amartya - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

There has been a shift, in recent years, in the understanding of the process of development. It is not a switch (as often portrayed) from a state-dependent view of development to a market-reliant view. Rather, it involves rejecting a "blood, sweat and tears" view of development in favour of...

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Modernisation and son preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

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Costly bargaining and renegotiation

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

We identify the inefficiencies that arise when negotiation between two parties takes place in the presence of transaction costs. First, for some values of these costs it is efficient to reach an agreement but the unique equilibrium outcome is one in which agreement is never reached. Secondly,...

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What's the point of a development strategy?

Sen, Amartya - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

Standard indicators of economic success leave out many aspects of development that are crucial to the well-being and freedom of citizens. We have to examine critically the ends as well as the means involved in development strategies. The impact of public education, health care, social security,...

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Transaction costs and the robustness of the Coase Theorem

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper explores the extent to which the presence of ex-ante transaction costs may lead to failures of the Coase Theorem. In particular we identify and investigate the basic ‘hold-up problem’ which arises whenever the parties to a Coasian negotiation have to pay some ex-ante costs for the...

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Happy talk: mode of administration effects on subjective well-being

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on the measurement of subjective well-being (SWB) has escalated in recent years. This study contributes to the literature by examining how SWB reports differ by mode of survey administration. Using data from the 2011 Annual Population Survey in the UK, we find that individuals...

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