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Social mobility and economic development
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
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Volatility and development
Koren, Miklós (contributor); Tenreyro, Silvana (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003264374
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International competition policy and economic development
Scherer, Frederic M. - 1996
During the past half century many nations have adopted policies whose function is to discourage cartels and other restrictive practices. Industrialized nations led the movement toward pro-competition policies, but more recently, developing nations have begun to join the parade. Initial steps...
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International competition policy and economic development
Scherer, Frederic M. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428057
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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477384
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Growth impacts of the exchange rate and technology
Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro - 2016
The aim of this paper is to assess whether the impacts of real exchange rate undervaluation and domestic technological capabilities on growth are stable across development levels. On the one hand, a real exchange undervaluation measure is constructed based on the purchasing-power-parity theory...
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International Kuznets Curve (?) : aSchumpeterian model of the world economy
Haruyama, Tetsugen - 2021
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Social institutions and economic inequality : modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve
Alvarez-Pereira, Brais; Bale, Catherine S. E.; Furtado, … - 2015
Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...
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Malthus was right : explaining a millennium of stagnation
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2019
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