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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HUMAN FACTOR IN THE GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Sas, Mihaela Lupanceanu - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 2 (2014) 42, pp. 63-68

The links between the development of human potential and its various structures on one hand, and economic growth and development, on the other hand, represent a concern of exceptional importance for contemporary economic theory. Concerning the demo-economic relations, the population occupies a...

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Human capital, sustainable development and human development

Cojocaru, Cristi; Cojocaru, Mihai - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 2 (2014) 42, pp. 156-164

The concept of sustainable development is founded on the idea that any development process must be focused on human purpose and must allow the expanding of the range of choices that any individual can make in order to satisfy ones many necessities. There fore, starting from the main factors...

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Spatial Price Differences and Inequality in China: Housing Market Evidence

Li, Chao; Gibson, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013

have been to price a national basket of goods and services across China’s different regions or else to estimate a food … Engel curve and define the deflator as that needed for nominally similar households to have the same food budget shares in … food may be misplaced because of the emerging literature on the rapid convergence of traded goods prices within China that …

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ESTUDIO INTRAPAÍSES DE LA COMPETITIVIDAD GLOBAL DESDE EL ENFOQUE DEL DOBLE DIAMANTE PARA PUERTO RICO, COSTA RICA Y SINGAPUR / INTRA-COUNTRY STUDY OF GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS FROM THE...

Castro-Gonzáles, Segundo; Peña-Vinces, Jesús; … - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 20 (2014) 3, pp. 122-130

Muchos investigadores y economistas han argumentado que los estudios de competitividad del WEF e IMD muestran limitaciones en pequeñas economías,más aún cuando estas tienen características distintas. El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar la competitividad de 3 peque˜nas...

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Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul; Cooper, Ryan; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has on the living conditions of the extremely poor. In particular, we study the impact of providing better houses in situ to slum dwellers in El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the...

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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; Domench, Carolina García; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2012

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...

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Government size, composition of public expenditure, and economic development

Martins, Susana; Veiga, Francisco José - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of government size and of the composition of public expenditure on economic development. Using the system-GMM estimator for linear dynamic panel data models, on a sample covering up to 156 countries and 5-year periods from 1980 to 2010, we find that government...

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Do poor health conditions lead to higher allocation of development assistance?

Stepping, Katharina - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression framework, based on data from 22 bilateral donors to 160 recipients between 1990 and 2007. Donor characteristics, recipient characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship...

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Playing with the social network: Social cohesion in resettled and non-resettled communities in Cambodia

Gobien, Simone; Vollan, Björn - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use “lab-in-the-field experiments” in Cambodian villages to study social cohesion in established and newly resettled communities. Both communities are part of a land...

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The changing geography of gender in India

Fulford, Scott Lansing - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2013

This paper examines the changing distribution of where women and girls live in India at the smallest scale possible: India's nearly 600,000 villages. The village level variation in the proportion female is far larger than the variation across districts. Decomposing the variance, I show that...

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