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Global boom, local impacts : mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007 - 2011

Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014

study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural …- we are able to assess systematic differences in district-level welfare outcomes between mining and non-mining districts … of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …

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Investigating the origins of differentiated vulnerabilities to climate change and their effects on wellbeing

Cappelli, Federica - 2020

The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the analysis on the dimension of adaptive capacity, i.e. the...

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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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Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries

Cappelli, Federica - 2024

The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical and empirical levels. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of changes in the full spectre of income distribution on consumptionbased CO2 emissions per capita. To...

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The changing structure of immigration to the OECD : what welfare effects on member countries?

Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development

Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015

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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 …

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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 …

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Demographics in MENA countries : a major driver for economic growth

Forouheshfar, Yeganeh; Mekkaoui-de Freitas, Najat el-; … - 2019

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