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Gender Gaps in Human Capital and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Dao, Minh Quang - In: Review of Economics & Finance 3 (2013) November, pp. 91-98
This paper examines the impact of gender gaps in human capital on economic growth in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank for the 1990-2010 period and a sample of seventy-eight developing economies, we find that the growth rate of GDP per capita is dependent on gross capital...
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Balancing natural resources and human and social capital: Pathways to economic diversification in Mongolia
Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2023
Economic diversification has gained significant attention as a crucial factor for sustainable development worldwide. This paper addresses the risks associated with extreme specialisation and explores the potential benefits of economic diversification for Mongolia. By comparing Mongolia with its...
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
, rapid expansions of the middle class are transition economies. …
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
, rapid expansions of the middle class are transition economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591395
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Balancing natural resources and human and social capital : pathways to economic diversification in Mongolia
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2023
Economic diversification has gained significant attention as a crucial factor for sustainable development worldwide. This paper addresses the risks associated with extreme specialisation and explores the potential benefits of economic diversification for Mongolia. By comparing Mongolia with its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343062
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The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda
Klasen, Stephan (contributor); Lawson, David (contributor) - 2007
The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has one of the highest population growth rates in the...
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When unstable, growth is less pro-poor
Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - 2010
Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth
Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - 2011
This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median of the income distribution but assumes that such a...
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