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Types of demographic and economic development of Russian cities in post-Soviet period
Kauffmann, Albrecht; Limonov, Leonid Ė. - 2014
For long time, the applicability of economic theories of cities, urbanisation and urban development as well to Russian … regard to urban development in Russia referred to certain classes of cities (metropolitan cities, rapidly growing cities … Geography models. But, since 2004, data for cities with more than 100000 inhabitants (and for some smaller cities with regional …
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The evolution of inequality in Mozambique : 1996/97-2019/20
Barletta, Giulia; Ibraimo, Maimuna; Salvucci, Vincenzo; … - 2022
After decades of war, ending in 1992, Mozambique embarked on a path of sustained economic growth and substantial poverty reduction. However, these positive dynamics started to revert from 2015, with per capita growth rates getting close to zero and household real consumption reducing in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463999
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Spatial inequalities explained : evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - 2008
The literature shows that regional disparities in growth and poverty are often relatively high, that these regional disparities do not necessarily disappear as the economies grow and develop and that these disparities are itself in many cases an important driver of the overall performance of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876099
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Myopic misery : maternal depression, child investments, and the neurobiological poverty trap
Strulik, Holger - 2016 - Revised Version: October 2016
In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the future at a higher rate and invest less in the human...
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …
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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017
-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612941
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794986
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Exploring the Linkages between Productivity and Social Development in Market Economies
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004
This paper explores the linkages between productivity and social development from the perspective of synthesizing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518938
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Applying Artificial Intelligence on Satellite Imagery to Compile Granular Poverty Statistics
Hofer, Martin; Sako, Tomas; Martinez, Jr., Arturo; … - 2021
The spatial granularity of poverty statistics can have a significant impact on the efficiency of targeting resources meant to improve the living conditions of the poor. However, achieving granularity typically requires increasing the sample sizes of surveys on household income and expenditure or...
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