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Роль социальных факторов в экономическом развитии стран и наций сегодня уже невозможно игнорировать. Однако цель, которую ставят перед собой авторы, не в...
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Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017....
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Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is...
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Productivity data on the business sector, which covers around 75% of the economy, provide important information on the … evolution of living standards. The data on multifactor productivity (MFP) growth and labor productivity growth produced by the … labour productivity data produce a reverse picture. This is the Canada-US Productivity Paradox. In this study, we investigate …
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In this paper I emphasize the contribution of technical change towards productivity growth in explaining the relative …
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which allows explicity both for demand, for examination of the sources of productivity growth and for substitution between …
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