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such) paid off. -- transition ; institutions ; Russia ; economic growth ; human capital ; higher education ; innovation …
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This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … probability of becoming an economic elite is linked to the age of the head of household and to the income level of the county …, indicating that opportunities to become an economic elite have increased over time, but in a spatially uneven way.We also …
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What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...
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The formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced a remarkable demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility...
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, economic and institutional change and transformation after 1989. We collected a unique dataset on nature and intensity of … the resulting data to explain the subsequent political, economic and institutional developments in the post … after 1989, the concentration of power government and the nature and pace of economic reforms. -- civil society …
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economic, social, demographic and political areas. As a result, these countries can now be grouped into four structurally …
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What explains the divergent political paths that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have followed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? While some appear today to be consolidated democracies, others have all the features of consolidated autocracy. This study...
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Ethiopia has experienced rapid economic growth since 2005. Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of … the nature and extent of structural shift in the Ethiopian economy. A more durable shift of economic activities towards … impact of the high economic growth and slow but unmistakable structural change on a number of economic outcomes working …
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We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...
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There are many studies on the effects of conditional cash transfer programmes on enrolment, productivity and poverty reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect. This paper provides new evidence on effects of the...
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