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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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Death and destitution : the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021

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Lives and livelihoods estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

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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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The unequal inequality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2021

GDP contractions are typically associated with within-country income inequality increases. While official income inequality data for 2020 will not be available for about two years, the already available employment data for 2020 shows that the difference between highly-educated and low-educated...

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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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Salmonella program in the European Union and the trade dispute with Brazil at the World Trade Organisation : a partial equilibrium framework

Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2022

This contribution provides a cost-benefit analysis in a partial equilibrium framework to investigate the welfare … the welfare gains from the introduction of an NTM are explored. The results depend on consumer awareness and information …

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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …

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

Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015

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