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A Macro Policy for Poverty Eradication through Structural Change
Sobhan, Rehman - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033138
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A Macro Policy for Poverty Eradication through Structural Change
Sobhan, Rehman - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677777
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … response should be comprehensively total: institutions that unite, infrastructure that connects, interventions that target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Las instituciones horizontales de gestión colectiva del riego. El fracaso del Sindicato General de Riegos del Turia (1850-1883)
Sanchis Ibor, Carles - Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria - SEHA - 2013
The Spanish collective institutions for irrigation management have become a reiterated reference in the study of common … institutions to coordinate water management at the basin or sub-basin level. The aim of this institutional ambition, unsuccessful … the up-scaling processes in the development of nested institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842961
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The formality in property rights: determinant in the military strategy of armed actors
Guijo, Andrea P. Velásquez - Households in Conflict Network - 2008
seen as a means of financing, which influences the conflict’s persistence. In Colombia, land appropriation has been a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767758
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A Tale of Markets and Jungles in a Simple Model of Growth
Gall, Thomas; Masella, Paolo - 2007
Institutions determine prospects for economic growth and development. This paper collapses potentially complex … interactions of different institutions into a simple condition on the primitives that determines whether a society supports spot … markets or not. In a dynamic model of an agrarian economy agents are heterogeneous in land holdings, skill, and food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005455482
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Slavery, education, and inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 197-209
We investigate the effect of slavery on the current level of income inequality across US counties. We find that a larger proportion of slaves over population in 1860 persistently increases inequality, and in particular inequality across races. We also show that a crucial channel of transmission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930996
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742948
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671740
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2010
alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675794