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Income Convergence and the Flow Out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Barrientos Quiroga, Paola - 2015
This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more...
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Regional Convergence in Russia : Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2020
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839051
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Catching Up with the West : Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class
Gustafsson, Björn - 2019
We investigate whether Chinese household incomes have caught up to those of the middle class in the developed world. Using nationwide survey data for 2002 and 2013, we find considerable catch up. Defining the global middle class as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate...
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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Ouyang, Yusi - 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/10012923239
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127958
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Poverty and Survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135179
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Tertiary Education and Prosperity : Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India
Castelló-Climent, Amparo - 2015
the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012823
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076812
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Public Expenditure, Demography and Growth : Theory and Evidence from India
Das, Pranab Kumar - 2016
countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999017
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 2012
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
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