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Chapter 43 Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition
Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2281-2341). 2007
This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to … cases, improved nutrition helps raise labor productivity and allows individuals to work for longer hours, which makes human … middle income countries, improved schooling has been more important than improved nutrition or caloric intake in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024081
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Economic growth and income inequality : empirical evidence from North African countries
Abida, Zouheir; Sghaier, Imen Mohamed - 2012
Africa (Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt) over the period 1970-2004. The results of this paper indicate that the long-run growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009692750
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The Social Outcomes of Education and Feedbacks on Growth in Africa
McMahon, Walter W.; Appiah, Elizabeth M. - 2014
, poverty, political stability, and other key measures of economic development in Africa. It seeks to do this more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124332
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Health and growth: causality through education
Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley F. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 3, pp. 321-344
Purpose – The paper aims to theoretically and empirically investigate the impact on human capital investment decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical model is a three-period overlapping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641386
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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty? : new projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Anna, Zuzy; Komarulzaman, Ahmad; … - 2023
In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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Growth and Poverty. The case of México
Soloaga, Isidro - Econometric Society - 2004
Although poverty levels have been diminishing in Mexico since the late 90’s, several regions still show high levels of poverty which are extremely high in some rural areas. The paper addresses the issue of the linkages between sectoral growth (urban/rural) and poverty levels by applying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328874
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Agriculture and human capital in economic growth : farmers, schooling and nutrition
Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003473391
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Catching up from early nutritional deficits? : evidence from rural Ethiopia
Outes, Ingo; Porter, Catherine - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 2, pp. 148-163
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Simulating economic growth effects on food and nutrition security in Yemen : a new macro–micro modeling approach
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier - In: Economic modelling 43 (2014), pp. 100-113
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United Republic of Tanzania : Advancing Nutrition for Long-Term Equitable Growth
World Bank - 2012
This report explores the importance of nutrition for Tanzania. It demonstrates that the prevalence of malnutrition is … malnutrition for infant mortality, education outcomes, the health system and labor productivity. For nutrition to be successfully … advanced high level support is needed. Efforts to advance nutrition in Tanzania have made before, with the earliest attempts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553298