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Statistics on investment in training : an assessment of data available and cross-country comparability
Galhardi, Regina M. A. A - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2005
Analyses examples of statistics on participation and expenditures on training by 26 countries out of 32 less-developed countries surveyed in 2002.
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Global employment trends 2014 : risk of a jobless recovery?
International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations; … - 2014
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Comparing Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean countries using per capita GDP, remittances, openness, capital/labor ratios and freedom
Collins, Sondra; Nissan, Edward - In: Journal of economics and finance 40 (2016) 1, pp. 188-198
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Determinants of foreign direct investments (FDI) in developing nations : evidence from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Mel, N. D.; Morawakage, P. S. - In: Asian African journal of economics and econometrics 20 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
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Money pools in the Americas : the African diaspora's legacy in the social economy
Hossein, Caroline Shenaz - In: Forum for social economics 45 (2016) 4, pp. 309-328
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Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2009
Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pressures and causes severe hardship for poor households lacking access to social safety nets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479134
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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report
Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275920
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824965
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Mobile payments for remittances in Latin America : benchmarking with Africa (Focus)
Recuero Virto, Laura - In: CESifo forum : a bi-monthly journal on European … 10 (2009) 4, pp. 43-51
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931785