The main objective of this paper is to show how Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided into two major parts. Part 1 presents the concept of the...

This paper studies the impact of families on sectoral labor allocation in developing agricultural economies. In an overlapping generations framework, we equate a family to a contingent-claims contract. Families are endogenous by design. A risk-averse adult facing possible unemployment may be...

This paper uses household, school, and test score data from Bangladeshto compare and contrast the effectiveness of NGO-run and state-run schoolsin the provision of primary education. I study how the entry of NGOs inprimary education has affected educational outcomes of girls and examine...

In an empirical microeconomic analysis that allows individual heterogeneity, we test four main hypotheses from the recent macroeconomic literature on child labor: the substitution, subsistence, capital market and parental education hypotheses.

L'emigration est un element central de l'histoire contemporaine de l'Espagne et de l'Italie. Du milieu du XiXe siecle aux annees 1970, ces deux pays, que caracterise au depart une economie rurale traditionnelle, adoptent face a l'emigration des attitudes et des politiques differentes, voir...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the pressures that globalization exerts on industrial relations systems in South Asia, how industrial relations and human resources (IR and HR) are changing in response, and to conclude with a vision of some future directions for IR and HR policy and...

We study how the allocation of government expenditures between two major outlays -- education and pay-as-you-go social security -- affects income distribution in an economy with heterogeneous agents.

In this paper, we investigate what affects school attendance and child labour in an LDC, using data from Zambia. We find some support for the hypothesis that poverty forces households to keep their children away from school.

This paper explores thelinks between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, the other, from human development to economic growth. The importance of various links in each chain are explored empirically with the help of...