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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of … scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and … of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in …
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concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and … during the dry season, and for mortality in the first 6 months of life. The results seem to be driven by water scarcity per …
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R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (strong scale effect) or the level of per capita income (weak scale effect), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support for...
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Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality …
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Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …
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transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …
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world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …
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This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...
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instrument water mass change by the interaction of the number of drought months per year with yearly global average temperature … mitigate these effects substantially. Water demand factors contribute to a quicker depletion of water mass in case of drought …Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water …
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