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This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … quantiles. This implies that females have higher tendency to be obese in Turkey.Our findings also imply that the positive effect …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with...
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This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the...
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two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … exponential modelling, using data from the 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this … employment among women in Turkey, with increasing intensities identified among some groups of women. Our findings also cast light …
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The concept of ‘green growth’ implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that rather than being win-win, green growth is...
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Some recent literature in the meta-analysis category where results from a range of studies are brought together throws doubt on the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses what meta-analysis has to say about the effectiveness of foreign aid in terms...
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A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...
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