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harmonise the national development priorities with international efforts and a number of policies, strategies, programmes … in achieving inclusive growth and sustainable development vis-a-vis 17 selected developed and developing countries … inclusive growth. In addition, the paper presents specific policies that have a positive impact on both growth and inequality …
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many...
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Large international earnings differentials negatively impact human capital investments in migrant-origin countries. We find that three Central Asian migrant-sending countries-the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan-are facing a for-saken schooling...
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263500
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
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Structural change has a far-reaching impact on inequality. It exposes the population to challenges and opportunities …. Foreign trade and technological progress have been widely put forth as a structural driver of inequality. Broader structural … change, such as demographic transition, can also impinge upon inequality. Structural change in developing Asia has been …
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In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of political power on the provision of public education. We use data from a historical nondemocratic society with a weighted voting system where eligible voters received votes in proportion to their taxable income and without any limit on the maximum...
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International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development … emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development … regressions.Keywords: Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development. …
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and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …
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This paper presents new evidence on the relationship between corruption and income inequality. Using a panel data … methodology, we find that lower corruption is associated with higher income inequality in Latin America. This result is in … relationship between inequality and corruption suggests that institutional reform policies by themselves may be misguided. …
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