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capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change …
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involvement in cognate activities with a parent, indicating a behavioural relationship between capabilities and activities which …
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This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
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environments and investments in children are substantial. They causally affect the development of capabilities. Both cognitive and … noncognitive capabilities determine success in life but to varying degrees for different outcomes. An empirically determined … technology of capability formation reveals that capabilities are self-productive and cross-fertilizing and can be enhanced by …
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between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and … capabilities and SWB (particularly, life evaluations), which varies across world regions. Capabilities can also be associated with …
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Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
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accumulation to an otherwise static literature on capabilities. Skills embodied in agents empower people. Enhanced skills enhance … opportunities and hence promote capabilities. We address measurement problems common to both the economics of human development and …
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account for the possibility that some functionings may increase when a person's capabilities decrease, if substitution effects … impairment has widespread rather than concentrated impacts on capabilities and is associated with higher psychological costs.. We …
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capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271974