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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
out of a development trap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528105
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912825
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726
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The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education
Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023
We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286505
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Measuring monetary poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region : data gaps and different options to address them
Atamanov, Aziz; Tandon, Sharad; López Acevedo, Gladys; … - 2020
This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving public access to household budget surveys, the availability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238264
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Revisiting cross-country poverty convergence in the developing world with a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Ouyang, Yusi; Shimeles, Abebe; Thorbecke, Erik - 2018
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810342
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Do developing countries enjoy faster poverty reduction as their initial poverty incidences decline over time? : a dynamic panel analysis
Ouyang, Yusi; Shimeles, Abebe; Thorbecke, Erik - 2018
Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during the past three decades than those starting out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814625
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Poverty in Russia: a bird's-eye view of trends and dynamics in the past quarter of century
Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2021
Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589242
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Identifying the poor : accounting for household economies of scale in global poverty estimates
Jolliffe, Dean; Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi - 2022
international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414610