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, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … response should be comprehensively total: institutions that unite, infrastructure that connects, interventions that target …
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Using new sectoral data on Spanish capital stock, real investment and credit we check for the presence of bank preferences for lending to particular branches of the economy. We show that these subsectors share specific characteristics in the levels and components of their cost of use of capital....
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. First, human capital improves the skills in decision making in different life domains. Second, it improves the skills and … educational background, educational and skill mismatch in the workplace and various measures of WB such as income, happiness, job …
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, possibly because egalitarian FLR create a mismatch between household agricultural ability and land size and after FLR … households has to participate in land rental market to adjust the mismatch. Second, PLR have negative effect on household land …
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Jevons composed his value theory of nonenties. These creatures are elusive. Subsequent formal refinements did not eliminate the fundamental flaw but made it only harder to detect. A vacuous formal structure is one that cannot be interpreted in some domain. For want of any correspondence in the...
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This article presents a model for budgetary allocation that was used by an international NGO for its aid program. The …
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In this paper we propose an economic model for the optimum allocation of water within a given area with the following … for achieving improvements in water allocation from the former administrative-based rules to new flexible and tradable …
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The National Budget has a key role as an instrument of funds allocation for different social priorities and resources … funds to the various social programs, priorities and allocation criteria used to provinces in the National Budget 2010 … more relevant with the new Universal Child Allocation for Social Protection program, as well as programs for education …
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successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …
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I maintain that fatalistic tendencies are the output of the interaction between cultural factors (and in particular of religious beliefs) and historical Institutional experience. Using WVS data this idea has been tested against two well known sociological theories on the origin of fatalism:...
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