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Recent growth experiences of Asian tigers: where does India stand?

Arora, Rashmi Umesh; Ratnasiri, Shyama - In: International Journal of Social Economics 42 (2015) 2, pp. 143-162

the literature on Indian economic development. …

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Social trust and use of banking services across households in 28 transitional countries

Afandi, Elvin; Habibov, Nazim - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 4, pp. 431-443

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use survey data from a sample of 29,000 households from 28 transitional countries and Turkey to address two main questions: first, is there any effect of social trust on the use of banking services; and second, what are the household-level and...

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ICTs and maternal healthcare utilization. Evidence from Ghana

Abekah-Nkrumah, Gordon; Guerriero, Marta; Purohit, Purnima - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 7, pp. 518-541

Purpose – Traditionally, the role of technology on health services has been argued from the supply side. The purpose of this paper is to use a demand side perspective to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on the use of maternal health services in Ghana....

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Economic risk analysis of alternative farming systems for smallholder farmers in central and north-east Thailand

Aditto, Satit; Gan, Christopher; Nartea, Gilbert - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 4, pp. 294-320

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate farmers’ risk aversion using the equally likely certainty equivalent approach and the negative exponential utility function to identify risk preference classification. Design/methodology/approach – Stochastic efficiency with respect to...

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The rich or the poor: who gains from public education spending in Ghana?

Gaddah, Mawuli; Munro, Alistair; Quartey, Peter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 42 (2015) 2, pp. 112-131

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence of public education subsidies in Ghana. Since the late 1990s, Ghana’s government has increasingly recognized human capital as key to alleviating poverty and income inequality, causing dramatic increases of government...

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Lights and shadows of Affordable Care Act and its influence on world civilization

Migheli, Matteo; Di Novi, Cinzia - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 1, pp. 132-140

potential implications for the human and economic development of both the USA and the rest of the world. The authors show that … developed countries also need policies for enhancing human development and also the developing world may benefit from policy …

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Multivariate robust estimation of inequality indices

Lara Alvarez, Jorge - In: International Journal of Social Economics 42 (2015) 10, pp. 921-945

Purpose – The data employed to measure income inequality usually come from household surveys, which commonly suffer from atypical observations such as outliers and contamination points. This is of importance since a single atypical observation can make classical inequality indices totally...

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Institutional benchmarking of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 42 (2015) 6, pp. 543-565

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether … institutional thresholds matter in the effectiveness of foreign-aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the … relationship between institutional dynamics and development assistance differs throughout the distributions of institutional …

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Food production and the growth of manufacturing: the case of Tanzania

Grabowski, Richard - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 10, pp. 1049-1062

process of structural change and, more importantly, on the development of labor intensive industry. Design … productivity. Practical implications Investment in raising agricultural productivity is critical in the development of labor … solving the food problem domestically is crucial for structural change and economic development. Labor intensive manufacturing …

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Human development in a statist world

Booth, Ken - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 7, pp. 633-647

development economics. Practical implications – The Human Development and Capability Association is committed to generating ideas … to challenge dominant approaches to human development. As such, the sense of direction pointed to in the paper …

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