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Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household survey data to dig into these trends and provide...
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Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...
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. Using population per value adjusted acre as a measure of population pressure, our results indicate that on the eve of the … Great Famine of 1846-50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor … quality housing. But while our analysis shows that population pressure was one of the primary factors underpinning pre …
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. Using population per value adjusted acre as a measure of population pressure, our results indicate that on the eve of the … Great Famine of 1846{50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor … quality housing. But while our analysis shows that population pressure was one of the primary factors underpinning pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941304
Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality, backwardness) appear in a somewhat different light than in many current discussions, especially by sociologists, radical economists and political scientists. In the present paper the...
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transitional cycles. The calibrated model shows that multiple equilibria can explain a considerable fraction of the global income …
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redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …
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Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840892
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China’s aging population … population dynamics and productivity growth. Although a reform is necessary, delaying its implementation implies large welfare …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population … population dynamics and productivity growth. Although a reform is necessary, delaying its implementation implies large welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083803