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This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …
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In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …
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This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U-shape relation between environmental degradation and income per...
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Why do Scandinavian countries perform better in terms of environmental protection than other European Union countries? In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that societies characterised by low-income inequality (such as the Nordic European countries) generate political-economic equilibria...
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We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...
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I study the coexistence of formal and informal finance in underdeveloped credit markets. While weak institutions constrain formal banks, shallow pockets hamper informal lenders. In such economies, informal finance has two effects. By increasing the investment return it decreases borrowers'...
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Privatization has certainly been one of the main events of the economic and financial history of the 20th century. Between 1997 and 2004 more than 4,000 privatization operations were carried out in the world, bringing to governments revenues for over 1,350US$billion. Western Europe emerges as...
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This report provides an overview of the causes and consequences of the Italian State-owned Enterprises (SOE) reform process. Particularly, it analyzes the symbiotic link between share issue privatization (SIP), i.e. privatization in public equity markets, and financial market development, and...
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to migrate. The econometric model is applied to a data set on Pakistan, containing micro cross-country data on migrants … within Pakistan, as well as detailed climate and environmental variables. Some descriptive statistics and policy analysis on …
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Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … limiting bottlenecks to sustainable forest management in Pakistan. De facto property rights are not as simple as denoted by … this dilemma to the management regime of the forest in North west Pakistan, we identify at the one end of the spectrum the …
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