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This study looked at the sustainability of the growth and development of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the … transcription, animation, and software development. Doubts about the sustainability of this hypergrowth situation are increasingly …
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Using two dimensions of exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1992 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This...
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Since its implementation in 1990 the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional … development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new … stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to measure socioeconomic development. Until now, the vast majority of …
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The links between the development of human potential and its various structures on one hand, and economic growth and … development, on the other hand, represent a concern of exceptional importance for contemporary economic theory. Concerning the …
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In the Latin American countries, there exists a paradox that is scarcely noticed: in the last decades, the education … expansion has been significant, but the degree of inequality has not changed much. Is education a non equalizing system? This … capitalist, overpopulated, and socially heterogeneous. In order to establish a set of theoretical relations between education …
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out of a development trap. …
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Since its implementation in 1990 the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional … development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new … stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to measure socioeconomic development. Until now, the vast majority of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312225
out of a development trap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528105
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
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families. The outcomes of interest are measures of education, health and poverty. Our main findings are that and economic …
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