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On the implementation of the Universal Basic Income as a response to technological unemployment
Nguyen, Le Dong Hai "DoHa" - 2021
The effects of automation on our economy and society are more palpable than ever, with nearly half of jobs at risk of being fully executed by machines over the next decade or two. Policymakers and scholars alike have championed the Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a catch-all solution to this...
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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto - 2015
contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The contest yields the per-period relative influence over institutions, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016336
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Political Institutions, Intertemporal Cooperation, and the Quality of Policies
Scartascini, Carlos - 2011
developed here indicates that this ability depends on several characteristics of political institutions, such as congressional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133917
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Sustainabiity and the Measurement of Wealth
Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2010
significantly in stages of development and resource bases: the United States, China, Brazil, India, and Venezuela. With the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135419
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Are Microloans Bad for Growth?
Emerson, Patrick M. - 2010
microloan program designed to finance entrepreneurial activities is active. It is shown that, in the presence of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136775
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Human Resources Development and Research Capacity and Their Impact on Economic Growth
Karaman Aksentijević, Nada - 2013
The goal of this research is to provide an analysis of the development of the Republic of Croatia and 110 selected … countries in terms of human resource development index components and the components of the Technological Achievement Index … indicators, and suggestions were provided for their development. The impact of the analysed indicators and their components on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081698
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Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
Greif, Avner - 2013
institutions for growth and development …Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic … growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082135
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Conformism and Structural Change
Hori, Takeo - 2011
We study structural change in a simple, two-sector endogenous growth model and show that the presence of commodity-specific consumption externalities can be a source of structural change. When the degrees of consumption externalities are different between different goods, the two sectors grow at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117146
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Neutral Markets, Non-Neutral Institutions and Economic Evolution
Volchik, Vyacheslav - 2012
influence of non-neutral institutions. A demarcation is lined up between efficacy of a market process and a market result. The … suboptimal institutions. The latter may become extremely robust and evolve into stable populations if an existing institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097563
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On the Substitutability Between Foreign Aid and International Credit
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2012
We examine the effect of relaxing a binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country on the amount of foreign aid it receives. We do so by developing a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model. The relaxation of the borrowing constraint reduces the flow of foreign aid, suggesting that...
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