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Agricultural growth trends and outlook for southern Africa: inter-temporal trends and patterns in agricultural investment spending in southern Africa.

Matchaya, Greenwell.; Chilonda, Pius.; Nhlengethwa, … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2013

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Reallocation of purchasing power due to demographic change : the case of North Rhine-Westphalia

Stöver, Britta - 2012

focuses on the reallocation of income and changes in consumption expenses caused by demographic change. Local disparities on … gives a first impression of the effects of ageing on the development of income and consumption behaviour. Regional … discrepancies can be identified. While some regions are characterised by a static income situation, i.e. a more or less age …

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Accounting measurements, profit, and loss : a science fiction play in one act by Harold C. Edey

Persson, Martin E.; Fafatas, Stephan - In: Accounting history review 28 (2018) 1/2, pp. 31-60

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The Family in Flux: Household Decision-Making in Latin America

Duryea, Suzanne; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view with an aggregate approach, this volume uncovers clues to declining fertility, skyrocketing female...

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Entrepreneurship in Latin America: A Step Up the Social Ladder?

Lora, Eduardo (contributor); … - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …

This book looks at the potential and the limits of policies to promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as steps to remove the constrains that hamper entrepreneurship. This volume assesses the relevant literature on...

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New century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and The Caribbean

Ñopo, Hugo - Inter-American Development Bank

This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. After this introduction, chapter 2 presents the methodology adopted by the book and the data sources employed. Chapter 3 then examines education in the region,...

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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Duryea, Suzanne; Powell, Andrew; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...

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The Effect of Conditional Transfers on School Performance and Child Labor: Evidence from an Ex-Post Impact Evaluation in Costa Rica

Duryea, Suzanne; Morrison, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This study examines the impact of Superémonos, a conditional transfer program in Costa Rica, which provides poor families with a subsidy for the purchase of food conditional upon children regularly attending school. Using three different empirical techniques -simple comparison of mean outcomes,...

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Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s, which is a period characterized by high volatility. In addition to performing this type of analysis for Mexico for the first time, the...

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Should Central Banks Target Happiness?: Evidence from Latin America

Ruprah, Inder jit; Luengas, Pavel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

It has become common wisdom amongst monetary policy professionals that central banks in Latin America should adopt inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In this working paper, using subjective well-being...

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