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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … from school. Impact heterogeneity is associated with the intensity of the shock, food price inflation, and the timing of …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
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Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments - in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? This paper examines Philippine...
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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … from school. Impact heterogeneity is associated with the intensity of the shock, food price inflation, and the timing of …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
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Endogenous time discounting is introduced in a two-period human-capital-driven growth model: subjective discount rate depends upon the level of human capital. This assumption accords strongly with the micro-level evidence. In the model an individual optimizes consumption over two periods. Low...
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Development of IT/e-business is a centerpiece of renewed economic growth in most countries of East Asia. This paper considers the challenges for policy focusing on the acquisition of knowledge and its utilization. While many countries in East Asia are well along the way toward upgraded...
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This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if we shift our attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards improvements in human development, especially the much broadened version of that concept. Different areas are shown...
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The study investigates the impact of human capital development on poverty in Central and Eastern European Countries … explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs …, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and …
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Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
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