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education. Public education is favourable for growth because it increases the level of human capital and at the same time it … more political support for education; increased political rights are good for growth and also imply a more equal income …. The main results are that for a given structure of political rights, more inequality may be good for growth if it implies …
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richer communities; thus average academic performance and income growth both fall. Yet it may still be possible for education …, which provides an integrated framework for analysing the local determinants of inequality and growth. Five main conclusions … emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of …
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Sustainable intensification of Ghana's smallholder farming is critical to mitigate rural poverty. Innovations for sustainable intensification include agro-ecological practices, which build up soil fertility, and mulching, which conserves soil moisture. To stimulate the adoption of these...
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Sustainable intensification of Ghana’s smallholder farming is critical to mitigate rural poverty. Innovations for sustainable intensification include agro-ecological practices, which build up soil fertility, and mulching, which conserves soil moisture. To stimulate the adoption of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429781
, Singapore and Thailand (hereafter ASEAN-5). While economic growth of each country undoubtedly hinges on domestic developments …
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Nigeria is a mono-economy that depends largely on the revenue from crude oil exports and the country's economic policies revolve around the revenue generated from oil. However, despite the increased revenue the country generates from crude oil export, the level of development is still inadequate...
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This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While … interesting contemporaneous patterns in growth data and second, drawing inferences on long-run economic outcomes from cross …-section and temporal variation in growth. We describe the main stylized facts that have motivated the development of growth …
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Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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Sustainable intensification of Ghana’s smallholder farming is critical to mitigate rural poverty. Innovations for sustainable intensification include agro-ecological practices, which build up soil fertility, and mulching, which conserves soil moisture. To stimulate the adoption of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960600
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is "Yes". We...
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