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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets
López, Ramón - 2009
temporary shock such as a natural disaster may leave permanent consequences for the economy. An obvious permanent effect of a … one-time disaster shock is that physical man-made and natural assets owned especially by poor households may end up … completely wiped out. The disaster may not be the direct cause; it may be that poor households would have to obtain minimum …
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The impact of extreme weather events on education
Groppo, Valeria; Kraehnert, Kati - 2015
This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our focus is on two extremely severe winters that caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic...
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Climate-related disaster and human capital investment in the Global South
Yokomatsu, Muneta; Schinko, Thomas; Mochizuki, Junko; … - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 8 (2024) 2, pp. 351-383
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Gender bias and child labor in LDCs
Kumar, Alok; Underhill, Emma - 2014
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Optimal policy for secondary education in developing countries
Dosmagambet, Yergali - 2015
This paper shows that an accelerated increase in educational attainments in many East Asian countries derives from a dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of...
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Does public education expenditure cause economic growth? : comparison of developed and developing countries
Idrees, Alvina Sabah; Siddiqui, Muhammad Wasif - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 7 (2013) 1, pp. 174-183
The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between public education expenditures and economic growth. The social benefits of education exceed its private benefits. Therefore, education is considered a merit good; if not supplied by the public sector, private production is...
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Pro-poor progress in education in developing countries?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009
Spurred by international commitments and expanded funding at the national and international level, attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in...
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Child labour, human capital accumulation and foreign aid
Sirohi, Rahul A. - In: Journal of economic development 39 (2014) 3, pp. 1-14
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Economic growth
De la Croix, David - 2014
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Changing priorities of human development at the stage of transformation into innovative economy
Semykina, Anna - In: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska / H 47 (2013) 4, pp. 113-124
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