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"This study explores the extent to which migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between 1991 and 2004. The analysis addresses concerns about...
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"How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities -...
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"There is a concern that the growth of towns in China has been stalled recently and with it, the creation of nonfarm … towns in three provinces in China-Zhejiang, Henan, and Sichuan-their educational attainment, original place, and …
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"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the … terms of both concepts in the 1990s. Divergence in income outcomes is particularly noticeable for the most populous states …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …
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entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …
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China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …
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China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550801
China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …
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"Temporary economic migration is undertaken largely in response to resource constraints. This is evident in the volume of remittances sent back by migrants to their families of origin. In agricultural settings, where those left behind are likely to face considerable exposure to uninsured income...
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