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Introduction
Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097646
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097661
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Lift irrigation in West Africa: Challenges for sustainable local management
Purkey, D. R.; Vermillion, D. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621897
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Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes
Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Benedicte; Jung, Toni - Department of Economics, University of South Florida - 2014
health outcomes as adults. Using Census and DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa, we show that individuals conceived during heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079283
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Bhutan Living Standards Survey 2012 Report
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB); … - 2013
health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254939
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Empowerment and Public Service Delivery in Developing Asia and the Pacific
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013
of information and communication technology (ICT) to streamline bureaucratic processes, widen access to information, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812216
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Emerging Asia's Middle Class-A Force to be Reckoned With
Dyck, Steffen; Hansakul, Syetarn; Saxena, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that the Asian consumer will replace the US as “world consumer of last resortâ€,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543122
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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Growth and Transformation Plan 2010/11-2014/15: Volume I
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This strategic paper discusses Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan (GTP) for the periods 2010/2011 and 2014/2015. The Ethiopian government’s main development agenda has been poverty eradication. The government has designed, and is implementing, strategies, policies, and plans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244884
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Coping with Technological Progress: the Role of Ability in Making Inequality so Persistent.
Rubinstein, Y.; Tsiddon, D. - Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas … - 1998
the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … education groups. Inasmuch as education is an irreversible investment, the rise in within group inequality BOOSTS UP the rise of …This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005675392
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HDR 1998 - Consumption for Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
? Preoccupied with environmental sustainability, globalization of production and consumption, the Report rightly asks, after a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467209