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This paper presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70 percent of jurisdiction-based...
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This paper provides a critical review of aid effectiveness in Bangladesh. Focusing on the contributions of major donors … adequate and reliable quantitative data. Foreign aid has had a mixed performance in Bangladesh. The responsibility for the … this middle-income status is paved with many obstacles: policy, infrastructure, and weak governance. Even though Bangladesh …
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-- of the ongoing urbanization in Bangladesh. Like many other Asian developing countries, a rapidly increasing share of the … population of Bangladesh migrates to urban centers in search for employment opportunities outside agriculture in industrial … patterns of urbanization in Bangladesh within a dynamic dual-dual framework with a strong emphasis on rural-urban migration and …
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Bangladesh is currently in the midst of a deadly political crisis. When Bangladesh was born forty-plus years ago, it …
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This paper examines weak form efficiency in the stock markets of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh; and the …. Weak form efficiency is supported by the classical unit root tests, however, it is not strongly supported for Bangladesh …
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Bangladesh is potentially capable of rapid, self-reliant and equitable development under a committed development … sovereignty. While acknowledging and encouraging the work of genuinely good NGOs for human development in Bangladesh, we must also … reject the manipulative use of big NGOs to sabotage the authority of a people’s government in Bangladesh led by patriotic …
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Whereas the supply of redistribution is relatively easy to measure, the determinants of the demand for redistribution are controversially discussed in international literature. Economic theory typically models redistribution as the result of a voting mechanism; this is only inadequately...
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The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in education at the societal level. Using socio-demographic...
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The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in educational attainment at the societal level. Using...
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This paper studies the Pareto-optimality of the consensual optimum established in "Allais-anonymity as an alternative to the discounted-sum criterion I: consensual optimality" (Mabrouk 2006a). For that, a Pareto-optimality criterion is set up by the application of the generalized Karush, Kuhn...
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