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This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
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Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...
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, and universal health care, and the management of economic growth. There is an increasing recognition that the achievement … policy should include economic stabilization, distributional equity, broad social goals such as income security, education … of social goals is essential to environmental sustainability. Regarding growth, while earlier macroeconomic theorists …
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's investments drive earnings growth and, hence, market value of equity. Technologies develop and flourish or die out through the …, research and development, sales, general, and administration expenses, risk, and growth. We also triangulate our results by … equity; (2) developing aggregate measures of technological innovation conditions that are relevant for estimating future …
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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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Parallel session 2: Population, health and growth … secondary enrollment rate. However, we cannot find a global effect of AIDS on GDP per capita. This outline the difference … that exhibits the poverty trap property the epidemic have. Our model is an OLG economy which highlight the effect of AIDS …
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international trade, the small open economy model, growth accounting, the Solow- Swan model, the gravity model, models of portfolio … countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate theeffect of rainfall and agricultural shocks on consumption growth in Madagascar …. We are also interested in the impact of local endowments in infrastructures and social services on consumption growth. To … achieve this goal, a micro model of household consumption growth is estimated thanks to household panel data collected by the …
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educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …
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the development of the state. The multiple roles of credit have generated growth, helped in poverty reduction, but also … populous state of India, and espouses a balanced and moderate approach. The existing literature focuses only on human …, large and small borrowers and gender in UP. This study explores credit in a multi-dimensional framework as a route to growth …
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