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Hace un año, un grupo heterogéneo de investigadores del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP) inició un esfuerzo colectivo para pensar en el futuro de nuestra economía y sociedad más allá del corto plazo. El trabajo que presentamos a continuación resume algunas...
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Síntesis El gobierno de Humala se instaló en el año 2011 con el objetivo de combatir la exclusión social. ¿Hasta qué punto ello se ha logrado? Según las cifras oficiales del INEI, 450,842 personas han dejado de ser pobres entre el 2011 y 2012, pero en términos monetarios. Esto quiere...
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This paper intends to contribute to the literature on the effects of domestic and international remittances on schooling and child labour. Using the information gathered in the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS), we examine separately the school attendance rates and the...
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There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the Haitian diaspora has surpassed one billion U.S. dollars in...
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This paper studies household car ownership in urban and rural areas in Sweden using register data for all adult Swedes … urban and rural households with respect to sensitivity of car ownership. The central result from comparing urban and rural … comparable urban households. This supports the notion that rural households are more dependent on their cars than urban …
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urban areas. Our results show consistently robust food price and expenditure effects. Besides, shifts in food price … framework, with food prices and expenditure (as a proxy for income) cast in a pivotal role. Based on different experiments …
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