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Low growth equilibria with low investment in human capital generally tend to persist till an external shock affects the economy. In this paper we use data on Christian missions to proxy a long-lasting educational shock in Africa. We estimate the effect of this shock on the quality of children...
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Low growth equilibria with low investment in human capital generally tend to persist till an external shock affects the economy. In this paper we use data on Christian missions to proxy a long-lasting educational shock in Africa. We estimate the effect of this shock on the quality of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958284
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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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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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …
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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. …
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