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Mobilizing Talent for Global Development

Solimano, Andres - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

Talent (combining creativity, education, skills, and knowledge) is associated with human capital and provides a very valuable economic resource. In the past, the emigration of human capital from developing countries raised fears because of the associated 'brain drain'. This is still a valid...

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Foreign aid and mobilization of growth factors in sub-Saharan Africa

Mallaye, Douzounet; Urbain, Yogo Thierry - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

This study addresses the macroeconomic effect of foreign aid on the factors of growth. Specifically, we examine the effects of foreign aid on capital investment (human capital, physical capital) in sub-Saharan Africa. Our methodological approach evaluates

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Long-term Effects of Land Reform on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from West Bengal

Deininger, Klaus; Yadav, Vandana - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...

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Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: the Case of Russia

Ofer, Gur - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which dropped even l

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Tunisia's Development Experience: A Success Story?

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Tunisia.s recent growth and development performance relative to countries in its region, and relative to countries at similar levels of development in other parts of the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, have been notable. An analysis of Tunisia.s path to development reveals that the...

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Migration Taxes and Human Capital Formation: Some Implications for Development

Kar, Saibal - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

Use of migration tax as an instrument for financing development expenditure in poorer countries has received renewed … literature-one claims that lack of restriction on skill migration promotes human capital formation and the other, the more … formation and migration involve risk, we then explore a connection between imposition of migration tax, human capital formation …

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An Economic Vulnerability Index: Its Design and Use for International Development Policy

Guillaumont, Patrick - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

In response to the need expressed by the UN General Assembly, an economic vulnerability index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed for the...

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The Medium- and Long-term Effects of an Expansion of Education on Poverty in C.te d'Ivoire: A Dynamic Microsimulation Study

Grimm, Michael - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

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The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications

D'Costa, Anthony P. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships, 1989-97

Chunbing, Xing - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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