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Sequential ordering of deprivations : district-level measurements and cluster mapping of level-senstitive improvements in India
Chakraborty, Vaidik; Mishra, Udaya S. - 2024
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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015
sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers …, rather than morbidity, nutritional status, and development. Also, it has generally not been possible to separately estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486585
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School health programs : education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults
Abrahamsen, Signe A.; Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie - 2021
college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take-up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599634
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Understanding the growth of the middle class in Bolivia
Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2021
In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state-level data of Bolivia from 2000 to 2017 and breaking the three main economic activities into subsectors to attain more-specific results. Because the data from Bolivia are limited,...
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Health shocks and the evolution of earnings over the life-cycle
Capatina, Elena; Keane, Michael P.; Maruyama, Shiko - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582565
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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development
Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518018
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On the role of productivity and factor accumulation in economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Daude, Christian; Fernández Arias, Eduardo - 2010
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region s development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247133
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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016
This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
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The productivity gap in Latin America : lessons from 50 years of development
Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016
This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472124
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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803493