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Determinants of Obesity in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country

Karaoglan, Deniz - 2017

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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Output-Employment Relationship Across Sectors : A Long- Versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin - 2013

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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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Kan, Elif Oznur - 2014

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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Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey : Conflicting or Compatible Roles?

Ozgoren, Ayse - 2018

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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Aid to Africa: The changing context

Addison, Tony; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2013

To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its economy. Ongoing globalization - in trade, finance, and technology - opens up new possibilities for structural transformation, but also new risks as Africa's integration with...

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The political economy of green growth: Illustrations from Southern Africa

Resnick, Danielle; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 2012

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 similar to...

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Aid effectiveness: Opening the black box

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of...

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Aid and growth: What meta-analysis reveals

Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2011

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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Poverty reduction and economic structure: Comparative path analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Arndt, Channing; Garcia, Andres; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 2010

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and countries' different compositions of economic...

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