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Ethnic diversity, mobility and school funding: theory and evidence from Kenya
Miguel, Ted - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
, economic growth, and local collective action are discussed, especially for Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928787
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Living with HIV post-diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences of Nairobi slum residents
Wekesa, Eliud; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
theoretically informed biographic disruption theory. Setting: Interviews were conducted in two Nairobi slums (Kenya). Participants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126336
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The weightless economy in economic development
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884693
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Spatial agglomeration dynamics
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884745
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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation
Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928630
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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution
MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support …. To reduce support by the same amount requires adding 14 percentage points on to the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928706
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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
This paper investigates the economic impact of the government's proposed new UK R&D tax credit. We measure the benefit of the credit by the effect on value added in the short and long_run. This is simulated from existing econometric estimates of the tax_price elasticity of R&D and the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928789
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The long-term consequences of regional specialization
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization* What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744966
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Transcending the great foreign aid debate: managerialism, radicalism and the search for aid effectiveness
Gulrajani, Nilima - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The Great Aid Debate pits those who are radically opposed to foreign aid against those who champion its reform to achieve greater aid effectiveness. This paper offers an analysis of this debate by introducing a heuristic distinction between aid 'radicals' and aid 'reformers'. The radical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744969
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Multiple-product firms and product switching
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness, and determinants of product switching by US manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745219