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Ghalib, Asad K. - In: Journal of business economics and management 14 (2013) 3, pp. 467-480

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Threshold conditions' and regional convergence in European agriculture

Alexiadis, Stilianos; Alexandrakis, Alexandros - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 13-37

Convergence across regional economies has spurred one of the most debatable issues in contemporary research in economics. In this paper we seek to address the question of whether, during the period 1995-2004 the NUTS-2 regions of EU-26 exhibited a tendency to converge in terms of agricultural...

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Regime-dependent output convergence in Latin America

Holmes, Mark J. - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 1, pp. 65-81

This paper tests for long-run output convergence between a sample of eight Latin American countries and over the study period 1900-2003. The key contribution of this paper is in terms of the econometric methodology where non-stationarity of log real per capita income differentials is tested...

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The relevance of variance analysis in managerial cost control

Dandago, Kabiru I.; Adah, Abuh - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 2 (2013) 1, pp. 61-67

Cost plays a prominent decision making role in the life of an individual and organisation because it is a central focus of daily financial activities. In any financial engagement, usually for a reward, the costs that are incidental to the engagement could be broadly analysed into material,...

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it …

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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …, research can identify knowledge gaps that to date pose limits to successful employment creation policy. -- employment ; poverty …

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living in Nigeria

Akinmulegun, Sunday Ojo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 295-309

The subject of interrelationship that exists between foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living has been an issue of both theoretical and empirical investigations. This study, thus examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and standard of living measured by per...

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Happiness economics

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-60

perspective, understand individual behavior, evaluate and design public policies, study poverty and inequality, and develop a …

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The effects of corruption on human poverty in ASEAN and developing countries

Negin, Vahiden; Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi - In: Journal of international economic review 5 (2012) 1, pp. 1-14

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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

This paper utilizes a joint (ordered probit) occupational attainment and wage determination model to examine the channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors of ownership in Egypt. Using a large data set drawn from...

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