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Urbanisation and sustainability: the role of the spatial allocation of property rights and public investment
Dentinho, Tomaz Ponce - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 189-205
The aim of this paper is to perceive the sustainability of urban development around the world looking into the effect on urbanisation of unsustainable factors such as the spatial distribution of rents from natural resources and the spatial allocation of public investment. First, a principal...
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Bhutan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
Bhutan has evolved from a closed economy to a trading nation that exhibits a high degree of dependence on trade. Exports have grown rapidly but overall the country’s trade deficit continues to widen owing to an even faster growth in the value of imports. The manufacturing and industry...
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HDR 2009 - Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international … capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people. Migration can expand their choices … by policy distortions, is a theme of the report. The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes …
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Determinants and consequences of internal and international migration
Poveda, Luis Alberto del Rey - In: Demographic Research 16 (2007) 10, pp. 287-314
This paper analyzes the current migration in rural population in the south of Veracruz state (Mexico). We identify … three different spaces of migration, traditional markets, the northern border and the United States. Applying a multinomial …
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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gupta, Sanjeev; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Wagh, Smita - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
out-migration in SSA. …
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Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances
Fullenkamp, Connel; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Gapen, Michael T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...
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Settlers and Guests - Determinants of the Plans of Return Migration from UK and Ireland to Poland in the Period 2007-2009
Hołda, Marcin; Strzelecki, Paweł; Saczuk, Katarzyna; … - Narodowy Bank Polski - 2011
incentives can influence decisions about return migration. This paper has two aims: (1) identification of the strategies adopted … by Polish emigrants that can explain their returns to the home country and (2) the verification of two major migration … theories (the classical approach versus the "New Economics of Migration" approach). The analysis is based mainly on data coming …
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Constructing Institutional Measures: Indicators of Political and Property Rights in Mozambique, 1900-2005
Luiz, John Manuel; Pereira, Luis Brites; Oliveira, Guilherme - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
In this paper we focus on the role of political and economic institutions in Mozambique’s development. We produce a set of institutional indicators for Mozambique for the period 1900 through to 2005. The first index tracks political freedoms and is unique in its duration and complexity....
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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963705
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Republic of Mozambique; Fourth Review Under the Policy Support Instrument and Request for Modification of Assessment Criteria: Staff Report; Debt Sustainability Analysis; Press Rel...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
The Mozambican economy recorded a strong performance in 2011, showing little sign of being affected by the global turmoil. Given the declining trend in foreign aid in the medium term, the government is tapping more into nonconcessional borrowing to close the infrastructure gap. To promote...
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