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Growing apart, losing trust? : the impact of inequality on social capital

Gould, Eric D.; Hijzen, Alexander - 2016

There is a widespread perception that trust and social capital have declined in United States as well as other advanced economies, while income inequality has tended to increase. While previous research has noted that measured trust declines as individuals become less similar to one another,...

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Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Countries where social and political institutions stimulate interpersonal trust, civic cooperation, and social cohesiveness tend to have more efficient governments, better governance systems, and faster growth. This paper provides cross-country evidence, based on a sample of developing and...

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Social Capital and Civil Society

Fukuyama, Francis - 2000

Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy....

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Tax Farming : A Radical Solution for Developing Country Tax Problems?

Stella, Peter - 1992

Systemic tax administration problems in many developing countries have led to a search for radical solutions. One such proposed solution is tax farming. Tax farming is a system wherein the right to collect taxes is auctioned off to the highest bidder. An analysis of the historical experience...

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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies

Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

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Structural transformation and the agricultural wage gap

Alvarez, Jorge A. - 2017

A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors … speaks against the existence of large short-term gains from reallocating workers out of agriculture and favors recently … gap level observed and its decline as the economy transitioned out of agriculture …

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Women's opportunities and challenges in Sub-Saharan African job markets

Dieterich, Christine; Huang, Anni; Thomas, Alun - 2016

alternative avenue to escape low-paid jobs in agriculture, but the increase in per capita income is lower than male …

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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?

Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021

Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …

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Trade and Industrialization in Developing Agricultural Economies

Vamvakidis, Athanasios - 1999

This paper examines the impact of international trade on industrialization in developing agricultural economies. The findings show that developing agricultural economies that increased their openness during 1970-95 experienced an increase in their share of industrial production at the expense of...

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Special Agricultural Safeguards : Virtual Benefits and Real Costs-Lessons for the Doha Round

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2005

paper argues that, in violation of the spirit of the WTO Agreement in Agriculture, the special agricultural safeguards have …

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