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Inclusive growth in India - learning from best practices of selected countries
Aggarwal, Suresh Chand; Satija, Divya; Khan, Shuheb - 2019
harmonise the national development priorities with international efforts and a number of policies, strategies, programmes … in achieving inclusive growth and sustainable development vis-a-vis 17 selected developed and developing countries … inclusive growth. In addition, the paper presents specific policies that have a positive impact on both growth and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006946
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Schooling forsaken : education and migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2019
We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972786
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311042
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Schooling forsaken : education and migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265254
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The causal effect of political power on the provision of public education : evidence from a weighted voting system
Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Tyrefors, Björn - 2020 - This version: May 29, 2021
that political institutions are a key determinant of human capital accumulation and long-run economic development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161499
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Inequality undermines democracy and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar <30., … - 2019 - Final version 21 January 2019
and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …
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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa : evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania
Vivien Houngbonon, Georges; Bauer, Arthur; N'Diaye, … - 2014
In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410852
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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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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440819
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459537