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The Future of the Rhode Island Economy
LeShane, James C. - 2010
No one would argue that the economy in the United States has been faltering in recent years; due in part to global factors, and even with stimulus plans offered by the Federal Government, there is increased burden on states to find forms of revenue. More and more, states must compete not only...
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An Approach to the 11th Five Year Plan: Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2006
The 11th Plan provides an opportunity to restructure policies to achieve a new vision of growth that will be much more broad based and inclusive, bringing about a faster reduction in poverty and helping bridge the divides that are currently the focus of so much attention. The first steps in this...
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The Global Competition for Talented People
Neves, Marcos Fava; Scare, Roberto Fava - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 16 (2013) 2
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Assocation. www.ifama.org
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Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
In 2011, Uzbekistan celebrated 20 years of independence. The transition has not been smooth for any country in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is...
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Honoring the Past, Building the Future: Fifty Years of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Celebrar el pasado, construir el futuro: Cincuenta años de desarrollo e...
Ávila, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank
Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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Human Resource Development and Poverty in the Philippines
Lam, Le Thi Ai - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded … unskilled labor situation, and low rate of return on education at basic levels. The poor faced high rate of underemployment and … pro-poor. Furthermore, opportunity costs and their unfavorable outcomes in labor markets prevent further improvements of …
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THE CONVERGENCE OF MIGRATION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION REQUIREMENTS
LAZARI, Silvia; BIRCA, Iulita; GRIBINCEA, Alexander - In: ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY: Theoretical and Scientifical Journal (2014) 1, pp. 84-91
This article reflects the interdependence between the migration phenomenon of our country's population and the phenomena carried in the overall human development of the Republic of Moldova, and the consequences of migration on the social and economic development at the macro-level, separately....
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Making Jobs Good
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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