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Estimates of a supply-side model of the nonprimary sectors, in which particular attention has been paid to modeling key …
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inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …
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We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...
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We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …
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of Friedrich Nietzsche, that ties poverty and inequality to unethical behavior of the strong toward the weak. The paper … contributes to an understanding of why poverty and inequality have remained entrenched in some societies in spite of repeated …
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This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …
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first to quantify the relationship between child marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the … analysis shows that eliminating child marriage would significantly improve economic growth-if child marriage were ended today …, long-term annual per capita real GDP growth in emerging and developing countries would increase by 1.05 percentage points …
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By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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growth could be lower for longer, with a setback to development. Post-pandemic reforms thus become even more important …, especially with constrained scope for fiscal and monetary stimuli. Reforms could boost per capita growth by an additional 0 ….3-1.3 percentage points, relative to the 1.9 percent average since 2010. Such growth would reduce per capita income doubling time from …
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