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Is there any relationship between Environmental Quality Index, Human Development Index and Economic Growth? Evidences from Indian States
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596405
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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth after Liberalisation: An Analysis of Indian States
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789398
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Wealthiest Is Not Always Healthiest: What Explains Differences in Child Mortality in West Africa?
Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108728
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Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility
Piacentini, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates the presence of a network externality which might explain the persistence of low schooling achievements among internal migrants. A simple analytical framework is presented to show how an initial human capital disparity between migrants and non migrants can translate into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836501
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What Determines the Long run Growth in Kenya?
Kumar, Saten; Pacheco, Gail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Lifting the long run growth rate is, arguably, the pursuit of every economy. What should Kenya do to enhance its long run growth rate? This paper attempts to answer this question by examining the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in Kenya. We utilized the theoretical insights from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490073
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Regional dimensions of economic development in Iran: A new economic geography approach
Farmanesh, Amir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents a spatial analysis on regional dimensions of poverty and economic development across provinces of Iran. It offers the first ever estimation made in developing countries using this strand of "New Economic Geography" (NEG) models and provides a comparison of the results between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108457
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Can Lipset’s theory travel through time and space? the destination Nicaragua, 1972-1998. A time series test of the social requisites of democracy.
Michalak, Katja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The epigraph is emblematic of an orthodox theoretical view that ‘only in a wealthy society could a situation exist in which the mass of the population could intelligently participate in politics’ and that this relationship is universal and applicable cross time and space. Comparing ancient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148013
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How to Increase the Growth Rate in South Africa?
Kumar, Saten; Pacheco, Gail; Rossouw, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Given the concern about the low growth rates in African countries, this paper deals with the issue of how to increase the said growth rates by using South Africa as a case study. This paper attempts to answer this question by examining the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP)and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684910
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Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies
Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876877
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Reconsidering the effect of economic development on urban unemployment under non-homothetic preferences
Takeuchi, Nobuyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We reconsider the effect of economic development on urban unemployment by introducing households with non-homothetic preferences into a sector-specific capital version of the Harris-Todaro model. Contrary to previous studies, this work shows that, while urban development reduces urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107557