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Gone with the storm : rainfall shocks and household well-being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier E.; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - 2015

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) - the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept - on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita...

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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier - 2015

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029124

Civil Society Organizations in Latin America as a Democratic Anchor for Long-Term Social Development

Gómez, Santiago - 2013

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the “social capital” theories that link civil society and democracy …. Using data from the Civil Society Index for 44 countries, we find that not only this relationship exists, but that civil … society is also positively correlated with human development. Using a simple regression analysis, we discover that democracy …

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African American Mayors : Impact on African American Economic Development

McFayden, Elgie - 2007

This paper examines the impact of contemporary African American mayors on the economic condition of African Americans. This study is an attempt to better understand the extent to which African American mayors have improved the performance of key economic indicators specific to African Americans....

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Prioritising Inclusion in Addressing Barbados’ Development Challenges

Heron, Taitu; Piggott, Donnya - 2020

This is a policy paper which examines the development challenges of the Caribbean island of Barbados against the backdrop of the government's decision to enter into a structural adjustment agreement with the International Monetary Fund in 2018. The paper gives an overview of Barbados' trajectory...

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Women's rights and development

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...

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Symbolic values, occupational choice, and economic development

Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); Jeanne, Olivier (contributor) - 2007

Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various occupations, but also by the esteem that they confer. We propose a model of endogenous growth in...

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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Corneo, Giacomo - 2007

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The Myth of 'African Growth Tragedy' : Past, Present and Future

Zhang, Tianze - 2018

In the late 1990s, as economists looked back the development period in Africa since 1970s, they put forward the notion “African growth tragedy” , meaning that Africa's poor growth and resulting low income is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial...

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Women’s Rights and Development

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

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