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"Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? Yang examines Philippine...
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"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...
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"Chen and Dahlman assess the effects of knowledge on economic growth. By using an array of indicators, each of which represents an aspect of knowledge, as independent variables in cross-section regressions that span 92 countries for the period 1960 to 2000, they show that knowledge is a...
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The scope of this report is twofold. First, it documents skills gaps and mismatches and attempts to understand the reasons for them. Second, it provides a framework for thinking about skills development, drawing on international best practices, with the intent of stimulating further discussion....
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with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
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devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
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Uruguay's Government is currently analyzing several reform strategies for the social sectors. These include a health reform, the introduction of a new poverty alleviation program, possible changes in pensions and unemployment insurance, and also a tax reform, that impacts the income transfer...
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system in terms of incentives and redistribution. It starts with an overview of institutional arrangements, programs, and … could 'correct' incentives by making redistribution more transparent and progressive. A behavioral life-cycle model …
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The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 updates the 2008 edition of the Factbook with additional data for 71 countries collected from various sources, including national censuses, labor force surveys, population registers, and other national sources. The Factbook attempts to present numbers...
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