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Trade and Regional Inequality
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and...
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Measuring and Explaining Patterns of Spatial Income Inequality from Outer Space : Evidence from Africa
Mveyange, Anthony - 2018
This paper argues for night--lights data as an alternative data source for measuring spatial inequalities in Africa, where the paucity of subnational income data is persistent. The analysis compares the statistical relationships between income and lights-based measures of spatial income...
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Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Messina, Julian - 2017
four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro … Colombia. This decline in wage cyclicality is in accordance with declining real-wage flexibility in a low-inflation environment …
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Spatial Gaps in Management Quality : Evidence from a Lagging Region in Croatia
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2020
Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this report finds that: (i) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country (Eastern Croatia) is only slightly behind in the adoption of structured management...
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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services -- Lessons from India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
Although many studies consider the spatial pattern of manufacturing plants in developing countries, the role of services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by...
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The Spatial Development of India
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
In the last two decades the Indian economy has been growing unabatedly, with memories of the Hindu rate of growth rapidly fading. But this unprecedented growth has also resulted in widening spatial disparities. While cities such as Hyderabad have emerged as major clusters of high development,...
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Measuring Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : Methodological Considerations When Estimating an Empirical Regional Poverty Line
Castaneda, Raul - 2017
This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date urban official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18...
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The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Human Capital : Evidence from Latin American Household Surveys
Acosta, Pablo A. - 2016
This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … remittances flows with respect to GDP. While remittances tend to have positive effects on education and health, this impact is …
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Resource Rents, Coercion, and Local Development : Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bastos, Paulo - 2018
This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...
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What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2017
complete their primary education lacking even basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills?the so-called "learning crisis … and pedagogical knowledge on student achievement. These findings point to an urgent need for improvements in education …-experimental literature on education in low-income countries can be interpreted and understood, and point to important gaps in knowledge, with …
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