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Education is good for the poor: a note on Dollar and Kraay (2001)

Gundlach, Erich; Navarro de Pablo, José; Weisert, Natascha - 2001

A recent paper by Dollar and Kraay (2001) finds that higher primary educational attainment of the workforce does not increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a broader measure of human capital that accounts for...

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Von der baldigen Erschöpfung der Rohstoffe und anderen Märchen

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2007

Der Rohstoffgehalt der Erdkruste ist endlich. Diese unumstößliche Tatsache löst in Zeiten hoher Rohstoffpreise immer wieder große Besorgnis um die derzeitige, vor allem aber um die zukünftige Rohstoffversorgung aus. Gestützt auf die Medien schüren besonders Interessengruppen derartige...

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Ursachen der Finanzmarktkrise: Wer hat versagt?

Kösters, Wim; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

Wer ist eigentlich schuld an der Finanzmarktkrise? Teile der Politik und der Medien bieten ebenso einfache wie eingängige Erklärungen an: Schuld seien die Gier der Banker und allgemein ein Versagen des Kapitalismus. Aus dieser Sicht konsequent werden für die Zukunft vor allem umfassendere...

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Global Economic Solutions: Proposals from the Global Economic Symposium. GES 2008/09

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2009

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Persistence of underdevelopment: Does the type of natural resource endowment matter?

Perälä, Maiju - 2003

This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among ex ante low-income economies. An explanation for this persistence of underdevelopment is proposed through an empirical investigation that brings forth evidence on the...

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Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centres

Claessens, Stijn; Kingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002

The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, it examines whether Internet usage converges across the geographical space comprising the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Second, it aims to expand the currently rather limited empirical evidence on the determinants of Internet...

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(Re)Distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performances across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution has as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given...

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Bilateral donors' aid allocation decisions: A tree-dimensional panel analysis

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Tichit, Ariane - 2002

outcome variables are introduced. As a first result, the end of the cold war has reduced the bias towards former colonial …

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Institutional investors, corporate ownership and corporate governance: Global perspectives

Gillan, Stuart L.; Starks, Laura T. - 2002

activism. We then examine differences in ownership structures around the world and the implications of the interactions of …

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Income distribution changes and their impact in the post- World War II period

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Addison, Tony; Kiiski, Sampsa - 2003

This paper analyses the trends in within-country inequality during the post- World War II period, with particular …, it marks a clear departure from that observed during the first 30 years of the post-World War II period during which … trends in 73 countries accounting for 80 per cent of the world’s population and 91 per cent of world GDP-PPP. The paper …

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