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Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871009
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Capital and the Determinants of Poverty and SocialExclusion
Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
Types of capital which determine the ability of individuals, ofcommunities and of nations to avoid poverty and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354068
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Endogenous Lifetime and Economic GrowthRevisited
Bunzel, Helle; Qiao, Xue - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
. Interestingly, TFP growth can help economies escape the vicious cycleof poverty.[...] …
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Growing out of Poverty : Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859744
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Demokratie in Afrika –Eine wirtschaftsethische Stellungnahmezur Initiative „New Partnership forAfrica’s Development“ (NePAD)
Voigt, Cora; Pies, Ingo - Wittenberg-Zentrum für Globale Ethik - 2004
Die internationale Gemeinschaft unternimmt seit Jahren erhebliche Anstrengungen, umEntwicklungs- und Schwellenländer auf einen stabilen Wachstumspfad zu führen. Dabei istman zunehmend zu der Erkenntnis gelangt, dass ein wesentlicher Schwerpunkt der Entwicklungszusammenarbeitauf die...
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Erfahrung und Bewältigung von sozialer Ausgrenzung in der Großstadt: Was sind Quartierseffekte, was Lageeffekte?
Kronauer, Martin; Vogel, Berthold - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005855407
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Zukunft der Kinder: Konzepte, Projekte und Initiativen für, mit und von Kindern
Kreibich, Rolf; Thio, Sie Liong - Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung … - 2009
Anlässlich des 65. Geburtstags seines Gründers und Direktors, Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibichorganisierte das IZT am 6. Dezember 2003 das Colloquium „Zukunftsforschung imSpannungsfeld von Visionen und Alltagshandeln“.Wie dem Titel dieser Veranstaltung zu entnehmen ist, bewegt sich moderne...
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Nutrition and Economic Destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957. A Historical Perspective on Nutritional Economics
Destombes, Jerôme - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
[...]This research takes Iliffe’s suggestion seriously. For the student of Sub-Saharan Africa who has decided to … explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870780
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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866
Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Poverty.[...] …
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