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Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew Edwin - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those cities that specialize in heavy industrial activity...
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries : Diversification vs. Offshoring
Ceballos, Francisco - 2017
Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and … growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two … important, concurrent dimensions of financial globalization: diversification and offshoring. The diversification dimension …
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Social Capital, Finance, and Consumption : Evidence from a Representative Sample of Chinese Households
Cull, Robert - 2018
Using a new, nationally representative sample of Chinese households, this paper studies how social capital affects access to credit and its implications for consumption levels. The paper focuses on two specific forms of social capital: private social networks and membership in the Communist...
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Hidden Human Capital : Psychological Empowerment and Adolescent Girls'Aspirations in India
Roy, Sanchari - 2017
This paper studies the role of social-emotional or psychological capital in determining the education and employment aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in India. The study finds that girls'self-efficacy and mental health are important determinants of their educational and employment...
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Social Capital, Trust, and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth
Hamilton, Kirk - 2017
This paper combines theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social capital, that the welfare returns to investing in trust...
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Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia
Ban, Radu - 2017
This paper studies how self-help groups?village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production and social cohesion among the poor?can promote economic and social capital. The paper uses survey data and a wide array of social capital measures to assess the impact of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971305
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Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia
Ban, Radu - 2017
This paper studies how self-help groups?village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production and social cohesion among the poor?can promote economic and social capital. The paper uses survey data and a wide array of social capital measures to assess the impact of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971317
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International Interventions to Build Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sudan
Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2017
Over the past decade the international community, especially the World Bank, has conducted programs to increase local public service delivery in developing countries by improving local governing institutions and creating social capital. This paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973515
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Social Capital, Product Imitation and Growth with Learning Externalities
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017
Links between social capital, human capital, and product imitation are studied in an overlapping generations model of endogenous growth where the key benefit of social capital is to promote imitation. There is also a two-way interaction between imitation and human capital. Building social...
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United We Stand Divided We Fall : Maternal Social Participation and Children's Nutritional Status in Peru
Favara, Marta - 2017
In previous literature, social capital has been hypothesized as a substitute for other forms of capital, such as physical and human capital. This paper contributes to this literature, studying the association between mothers' access to social capital via participation in community organizations...
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