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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...

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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries

Lechman, Ewa - 2014

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...

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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?

Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014

The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...

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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?

Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014

I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...

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Growth: its sources and consequences

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

This chapter reviews economic growth, its causes and consequences in the Pacific-rim countries. The chapter is in three parts. The first part (Sections 2 - 8) is concerned with the question of fast economic growth in a group of East and South East Asian developing countries. It reviews the...

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Globalisation,developments and trends in the new international division of labour

McCallum, Carol - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

changing patterns upon the working lives of ‘workers in an integrating world’ (World Bank,1995). The paper finds both that …

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Value Chains and Global Inequalities: Plantain, Contract Farming, and Vulnerability of the Small-Scale Farmers in Colombia (Discussion Paper)

Baquero Melo, Jairo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The plantain is an important agricultural product worldwide. It is the staple food of millions of people, and represents a source of incomes for farmers participating in the international trade. In Colombia, the exportation plantain is chiefly harvested by small-scale farmers. However, they are...

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The scientist and the church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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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

implications are (b) the emergence of a new social formation that may be called World Market Capitalism, which has a vastly … system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of … power, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, to a multi-polar world order at the end of the first decade of the 21st …

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New imperialism or new capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. …

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