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The Mission : Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence and Culture in South America
Valencia Caicedo, Felipe - 2019
This article examines the long-term consequences of a historical human capital intervention. The Jesuit order founded religious missions in 1609 among the Guarani, in modern-day Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Before their expulsion in 1767, missionaries instructed indigenous inhabitants in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107672
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Background Paper: Research and Development and Extension Services in Agriculture and Food Security
Wesley, Annie; Faminow, Merle - 2014
Investments in agricultural research and extension have consistently demonstrated high rates of return in Asia and the … development and extension services through the two-pronged approach of boosting food production and preventing losses. Priority … and extension to address the numerous challenges along the pathway from agriculture production and distribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432713
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Background paper : research and development and extension services in agriculture and food security
Wesley, Annie S.; Faminow, Merle D. - 2014
Investments in agricultural research and extension have consistently demonstrated high rates of return in Asia and the … development and extension services through the two-pronged approach of boosting food production and preventing losses. Priority … and extension to address the numerous challenges along the pathway from agriculture production and distribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463534
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Development of Potato in Bihar-Issues and Strategies
Singh, Krishna M. - 2013
Potato is the fourth major food crop after rice, wheat and maize in Bihar. It occupies less than 5% of net sown area with production only 4th after rice, wheat and maize. Potato a short duration crop has special significance since it gives exceptionally high yields/unit area/unit time and has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072209
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The Poverty of Nations - The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa
Morton, James - 2021
Why, after 30 years of aid, were so many African countries no better off in the 1980s than they had been at independence? Why, indeed, were so many of them slipping back and earlier economic achievements being undermined?Concentrating on Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245275
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Farms versus firms in economic development : the assumptions and consequences of learning dynamics in agriculture and mnufacturing
Srinivas, Smita; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2015
Economic development theories and their learning frameworks differently address farms and firms. This article argues that the traditional double-standard of the primacy of manufacturing rests on a debatable stages model that under-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its...
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Educational Content, Educational Institutions and Economic Development: Lessons from History
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2012
Individuals’ choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills. We first present a model to show how differences in educational content emerge as an equilibrium outcome of private decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427650
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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282331
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Educational content, educational institutions and economic development : lessons from history
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2012
Individuals' choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills. We first present a model to show how differences in educational content emerge as an equilibrium outcome of private decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490201
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309090