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Half a world : regional inequality in five great federations
Milanovic, Branko - 2005
United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of …
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Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia
Deichmann, Uwe (contributor) - 2005
concentration of manufacturing industries for Indonesia, and estimate the impact of factors influencing location choice at the firm …
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Local conflict in Indonesia : measuring incidence and identifying patterns
Pradhan, Menno - 2004
"The widespread presence of local conflict characterizes many developing countries such as Indonesia. Outbreaks of … Indonesian government, the periodic Village Potential Statistics (PODES), which seeks to map conflict across all of Indonesia … that it can be observed across the archipelago. The data report largely violent conflict in 7.1 percent of Indonesia …
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Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chomitz, Kenneth M. - 2005
"This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions to that gradient: population density and remoteness from large metropolitan areas. It...
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Dynamics of income inequality and welfare in Latvia in the late 1990s
Monga, Célestin - 2004
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Pricing, subsidies and the poor : demand for improved water services in Central America
Walker, Ian - 2000
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Relative prices and inflation in Poland, 1989-97 : the special role of administered price increases
Wozniak, Przemyslaw - 1998
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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility
Lall, Somik V. - 2009
"How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities -...
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Sources of welfare disparities across and within regions of Brazil : evidence from the 2002-03 household budget survey
Skoufias, Emmanuel (contributor); Katayama, Roy (contributor) - 2008
"Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520957
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Nonlinear effects of altitude on child growth in Peru : a multilevel analysis
Gragnolati, Michele - 2006
"Growth at high altitude has been the object of many investigations after experimental studies on animals showed that hypoxia at high altitude slows growth. Many studies have also looked at the Andean populations and found different results. Even though a few studies find that individuals living...
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