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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...
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opportunities for development and discuss actions that may contribute to the expansion of regional production. A region that … factors, however, are often mentioned as potential barriers to the development of agriculture in the region, including …. For this competitiveness to continue and possibly even increase, many investments are needed, especially in improving the …
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aims to identify constraints to agricultural development in the region and discuss measures that can contribute to the … mentioned some measures: improvement in logistics infrastructure; social development of rural areas through mechanisms of … generating income for family farmers; the agricultural research in the region needs to provide solutions for further development …
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some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on … development, but organizing some important historical facts can help creating a full picture. The future challenge is to include …
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Since redemocratization in 1985, Brazil’s system of social protection became more focused on the neediest while at the same time emphasizing universal access, especially focusing education and healthcare. In a traditional context of severe inequality, the sub-national units of government...
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(Polish Livonia) and Courland. Hence, we argue for the persistence of legacies as drivers of divergent development paths in …
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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of … that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust effect on the development of Latin American regions. …
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