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Revisiting the Relationships Between Non-Renewable Energy Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth in Iran
Nasre Esfahani, Mohammad - 2016
Exploring the short-run and long-run relationships between consumption of various sources of non-renewable energy, economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would be considered as a golden key to provide rational energy policies of Iran in the post sanctions era. The aim of this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992709
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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596380
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Embodied human capital unemployment
Kumaraku, Klajdi; Naqvi, Nadeem; Rexhepi, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Adam Smith (1776) devoted the first three chapters to the division of labor in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This process, carried far enough, eventually results in a divergence between the distributions of supplies and demands of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025275
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Will India become a world economy power?
Incaltarau, Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
"Asian tigers" during the 80s or later, with China’s economy? Once India became an important economic player, it can no … are the prospects regarding economic and political relations between India and China? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835347
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The Literary Inquisition: The Persecution of Intellectuals and Human Capital Accumulation in China
Koyama, Mark; Xue, Melanie Meng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168675
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Human capital in Qing China: economic determinism or a history of failed opportunities?
Xu, Yi; Foldvari, Peter; Van Leeuwen, Bas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The traditional education system in Qing China has been widely debated over the past decades. Some have argued it was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108796
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Regional human capital in Republican and New China: Its spread, quality and effects on economic growth
Van Leeuwen, Bas; van Leeuwen-Li, Jieli; Foldvari, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
less efficient. However, so far this question is difficult to analyse for China since we lack information on one of the … the provinces of China between 1922 and 2010. Using our new dataset, together with physical capital and per capita GDP …, whereas until the reform period China was largely driven by capital accumulation, afterwards general technical development got …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110187
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Estimating the causal effect of forced eradication on coca cultivation in Colombian municipalities
Reyes, Luis Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Coca eradication has been aggressively pursued by the Colombian government to reduce the amount of land that agricultural households in the Andean country devote to this illegal crop. However, little work has been done to assess the causal effect of the policy on land allocation decisions. I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294944
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Employment, migration and livelihoods in the Hill Economy of Uttaranchal
Mamgain, Rajendra P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Based on primary survey data, the study begins with a brief overview of the theoretical and empirical evidence on employment and livelihoods for rural households in Chapter I. A macro picture of the economy of Uttaranchal is presented in Chapters II and III based on the secondary data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207091