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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty traps created by information problems and incorrect...

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Good jobs, bad jobs and redistribution

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sandvik, Bjørn; Staume, Odd Rune - 2003

We analyse the question of optimal taxation in a dual economy, when the government is concerned about the distribution of labour income. Income inequality is caused by the presence of sunk capital investments, which creates a good jobs sector due to the capture of quasi-rents by trade unions. We...

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Nonparametric welfare analysis for discrete choice : levels and differences of individual and social welfare

Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021

Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals' preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...

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Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India : a pupil fixed effects approach

Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi (contributor); … - 2008

-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within … achievement. -- Teacher unions ; teacher salaries ; student achievement ; productivity ; India …

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Bringing the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations to conclusion

Whalley, John (contributor); Walsh, Sean (contributor) - 2008

(China, India, Russia, Brazil) on the other. -- Climate change ; global negotiation …

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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009

We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business …

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The rapidly deepening India-China economic relationship

Whalley, John; Shekhar, Tanmaya - 2010

In this paper we focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating … into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … service-lead growth (see Rodrick & Subramanian (2006)). An alternative view is that India is effectively a lagged version of …

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