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The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...
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The paper discusses the main challenges confronted by Mexican government agencies and universities to deal with the model implemented since the late 1980s in the context of neoliberalism and globalization. Such challenges are associated with the tendencies observed at three levels. First, the...
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The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects …
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, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of new information, and incentives for participation and compliance … market-based approaches, especially those with price mechanisms; and participation and compliance incentives are inadequately … environmental outcome and efficiency, and between cost-effectiveness and incentives for participation and compliance. …
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incapable of inducing significant participation and compliance. We assess the Protocol and thirteen alternative policy … architectures that have been proposed, with particular attention to their respective abilities to induce participation and … compliance. We find that those approaches that offer cost-effective mitigation are unlikely to induce significant participation …
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