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very specific. Indicators of convergence and catching-up seem to show a GAP between Romania and other European countries …, and even other CEEC. Indicators of convergence and catch-up are usually used to analyse the effectiveness of EU policies … Romanian. The second part allows analysing the link between the agricultural sector and development. Notably, the Kuznets curve …
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liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also … document : la libéralisation du secteur financier ; renforcer la concurrence sur les marchés des biens et services ; l’éducation …
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Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...
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quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor …-skilled workers from extreme poverty in the short-run, it prevents income convergence between developed and developing nations in the … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …
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, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three … alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
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-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the … 1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
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We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial … for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …
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