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Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development
Birdsall, Nancy - 2007
I review the literature on the effects of inequality on growth and development in the developing world. Two stylized … facts emerge from empirical studies: inequality is more likely to harm growth in countries at low levels of income (below … about $3200 per capita in 2000 dollars); and it is at high levels of inequality (at or above a Gini coefficient of .45) that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162630
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2016
International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development … emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development … regressions.Keywords: Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000818
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On the institutional limits to human capital
Patron, Rossana - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
Education as an investment has competitive investment assets to which is compared usually by the respective return rates, that crucially depend on institutional quality. High returns to education depend on education quality whereas returns to rent seeking are basically determined by the quality...
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Education, Institutions and Growth: Fact-finding using available data
Patron, Rossana - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
The data analysis on education, institution and growth shed further light on the limitations to empirical research as well as provide patterns that may be a useful reference for it. Firstly, carrying out Cluster Analysis similar-country grouping is obtained, and unsurprisingly, it is shown that...
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The formal-informal economy dualism in a retrospective of economic thought since the 1940s
Clement, Christine - 2015
Central to the scientific debate about the 'informal sector' and the validity of the concept used to be a twofold challenge. The crux laid not only in the objective to explain the widely visible persistence of the informal economy in developing countries, but also in the identification of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487866
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The formal-informal economy dualism in a retrospective of economic thought since the 1940s
Clement, Christine - 2015
Central to the scientific debate about the 'informal sector' and the validity of the concept used to be a twofold challenge. The crux laid not only in the objective to explain the widely visible persistence of the informal economy in developing countries, but also in the identification of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487530
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The formal-informal economy dualism in a retrospective of economic thought since the 1940s
Clement, Christine - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät … - 2015
Central to the scientific debate about the 'informal sector' and the validity of the concept used to be a twofold challenge. The crux laid not only in the objective to explain the widely visible persistence of the informal economy in developing countries, but also in the identification of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198404
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Institutions and long-run growth performance: An analytic literature review of the institutional determinants of economic growth
Bluhm, Richard; Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
, intermediate and proximate causes of growth and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856392
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Growth, inequality and poverty during a process of institutional change
Tridico, Pasquale - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2008
those countries. Economic growth during 1995-2006 is regressed against poverty, inequality and human development variables … most cases. Through a series of cross-country regressions, using OLS models, the paper assesses the type of development in …. The main findings are that growth did not reduce poverty and that income inequality, measured as a reduction of Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449531
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Do migrants improve governance at home? Evidence from a voting experiment
Batista, Cátia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, we use a simple postcard voting experiment designed to capture the population's desire for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271802