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Economic Development, Inequality and Poverty: An Analysis of Urban Violence in Colombia
Poveda, Alexander Cotte - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN VIOLENCIA, INSTITUCIONES Y … - 2011
This paper analyses some determinants of urban violence in seven major Colombian cities. The empirical research is intended to explore variations in violence across these Colombian cities and the influence of these variations on Colombia´s economic development. In this study, several...
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Economic development and growth in Colombia: An empirical analysis with super-efficiency DEA and panel data models
Poveda, Alexander Cotte - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN VIOLENCIA, INSTITUCIONES Y … - 2011
In this paper, we analyse economic development and growth through traditional measures (gross domestic product and … DEA model to measure and rank economic development and growth from different approaches such as poverty, equality and … analysis should demonstrate that economic development and growth could be achieved most effectively through a decrease in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352233
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Trust, Growth, and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - In: Handbook of Economic Growth
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that explain the influence of trust on economic performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010869047
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Health and economic development—evidence from the introduction of public health care
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 1549-1584
suggest that health improvements had a positive effect on growth in income per capita and aggregate income. Copyright Springer …
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Growth-cycle nexus
Kodama, Masahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This research sheds light on the negative correlation between economic growth and business cycle in less developed … economic growth, we attempt to present a hypothesis based on the other influence direction in which economic growth affects … proposed hypothesis produces the negative correlation between economic growth and business cycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010625274
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Estimando la efectividad en el control de la violencia y el desarrollo socio-económico en Colombia
Poveda, Alexander Cotte - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN VIOLENCIA, INSTITUCIONES Y … - 2011
Este trabajo desarrolla un indicador para evaluar el nivel de efectividad del control de la violencia utilizando el método de análisis DEA. El índice evalúa el grado de efectividad del control de la violencia usando los departamentos de Colombia en el periodo 1993 - 2007. Comparando los...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854329
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Social Cohesion and Its Relationship to Endogenous Institutional Formation and Economic Growth
Heller, Lauren - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 25 (2009) Fall 2009, pp. 81-104
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894170
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Childhood preventive care, adult healthcare and economic growth: The role of healthcare financing
Woode, Maame Esi; Nourry, Carine; Ventelou, Bruno - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 41-47
We analyze the impact of healthcare financing on economic growth, focusing on the issue of the joint public …–private financing of healthcare (co-payment). We use an overlapping-generations model with endogenous growth based on health human …-finance adulthood curative care. From a growth maximizing perspective, distortionary taxes give an advantage to co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784995
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Unified growth based on the specific factors model
Caspari, Volker; Pertz, Klaus - 2008
The two-sector specific factor model is typically used in the theory of international trade where it helps to clarify the principle of comparative advantage. Instead, we use this model as explicit theoretical framework to explain major trends of long-run economic development. Combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266861
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The growth performance of developing countries in the last thirty years: Who gained? - Who lost?
Siebert, Horst - 2006
growth strategy. …
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