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Using a two-sector endogenous growth model, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate cycles in output, consumption, investment and hours. To contextualize our findings, we also assess whether the human capital...
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Regression trees are evaluated with respect to mean square error (MSE), mean integrated square error (MISE), and integrated squared error (ISE), as the size of the training sample goes to infinity. The asymptotically MSE- and MISE minimizing (locally adaptive) regression trees are characterized....
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reflect the changing role of agriculture in the economy. The share of agriculture in GDP declined from 44% in early 1960s to … share of agriculture in employment has fallen from 83% in 1957 to 57% in 1999. The difference between the shares of … agriculture in GDP and employment suggests a huge labour productivity gap between agriculture and manufacturing, and it has …
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The urban transportation sector's environmental, economic, and social footprint is immense and expanding. Many of the world's most vexing and pressing problems - fossil fuel dependency, global warming, poverty, and social exclusion - are inextricably tied to the transportation sector. Much of...
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the country in future and of the impact of such expansion on the area under agriculture. …
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Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...
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Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...
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While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact … potentially help reduce poverty through larger government expenditures on social sectors. However, it is unlikely that Tanzania …
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Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania … Tanzania during the 1990s, has accelerated, but has also been concentrated in sectors to which the majority of the poor have … few links; third, the efficiency with which income growth reduces poverty in Tanzania appears very sensitive to the …
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In this paper we estimate the amount of tax evasion in customs authorities in both Kenya and Tanzania by calculating … measurement error is correlated with the tax rates in both Kenya and Tanzania. According to the Transparency International … Corruption Perceptions Index, Kenya is more corrupt than Tanzania, but we find that the coefficient on tax is higher in Tanzania …
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