This paper anlyses how parental education affects child human capital outcomes, using household survey data from Mozambique. Four indicators of human capital are examined: height-for-age of children below 5 years of age, children''s rate of survival, children''s education, and total fertility of...

In this paper, we examine the progressivity of social sector expenditures in eight sub-Saharan African countries. We employ dominance tests, complemented by extended Gini/concentration coefficients, to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. We...

This paper provides an initial analysis of the EU ETS based on the installation-level data for verified emissions and allowance allocations in the first trading year. Those data, released on May 15, 2006, and subsequent updates revealed that CO2 emissions were about 4% lower than the allocated...

We investigate how the relative contribution of external factors to stock price movements varies with the degree of financial development. We find that financial development makes stock markets more susceptible to external influences (both financial and macroeconomic). Interestingly, this effect...

El presente documento analiza qué otras variables, además de las económicas, afectan el crecimiento económico del país. Específicamente, se trata de determinar los efectos que tienen las variables de la violencia y la inestabilidad socio-política en el crecimiento económico colombiano...

Desde el seminal artículo de Solow (1957), la productividad ha sido un tema recurrente en la literatura económica. La forma elegante como dicho artículo torna aprehensible un concepto de otra manera difuso, ha alentado numerosas investigaciones y ha propiciado esfuerzos conducentes a hacer...

El comercio internacional y los flujos de inversión se han incrementado en las últimas déca-das más rápidamente que el producto interno bruto mundial. Este rápido crecimiento de las transacciones internacionales se conoce comúnmente como globalización. Este fenómeno puede ser visto como...

This paper discusses Offshore Finance Centres (OFCs) in islands using Jersey as its case study. Jersey has become an increasingly important conduit for the global circulation of capital, both for Transnational Corporations and wealthy individuals.

La problematique d'un developpement soutenable (ou developpement durable) n'est generalement abordee que dans une perspective globale, celle de la prise en compte et de la maitrise des risques ecologiques a l'echelle de la planete, risques engendres par le modele de developpement privilegie dans...

Given the growing importance of retrospective surveys, researchers need tonot only be sensitive to the quality of the underlying data but are likely to benefit from investments in better understanding the extent and nature of biases inherent in these sources. This paper is the product of such an...