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The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited

Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2012

Students´ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above...

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Does energy consumption contribute to climate change? Evidence from major regions of the world

Akhmat, Ghulam; Zaman, Khalid; Shukui, Tan; Sajjad, Faiza - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 36 (2014) C, pp. 123-134

climatic change variables, although the developed regions are among the most energy intensive economies in the world, little … investigates the two variables dynamic relationship in five broader regions of the world i.e., South Asia, Middle East and North … Africa (MENA region), Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and Pacific and the aggregate data of the World. The major climatic …

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India’s research contribution to world LIS literature: a study 2011–20

Pandita, Ramesh; Singh, Shivendra; Baidwan, Kiran - In: Collection and Curation 41 (2021) 4, pp. 116-124

Purpose This study aims to find out the India’s research contribution to world Library and Information Science (LIS … researchers during the past decade and the percentage share of Indian LIS researchers to the world LIS literature. Attempt has …/methodology/approach The scope of the study is limited to library and information research undertaken across the world in general and India in …

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Fiscal Responsibility And Economic Efficiency:A Functional Approach

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In both developed and developing countries, there are basically two main sources of economic instability: exogenous shocks and inappropriate policies. Exogenous shock (terms-of-trade shocks, natural disasters and capital flow reversals) can throw an economy into disequilibrium and therefore...

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THE DISSOCIATION BETWEEN EMISSIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE ROLE OF SHOCKS EXOGENOUS TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE MODEL

DIAZ-VAZQUEZ, M. Rosario - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 9 (2009) 2

This analysis focuses on determining the role of those factors that are exogenous to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model in counteracting the scale effects (effects of the increase in GDP ceteris paribus) on CO2 and sulphur emissions. For this purpose, first, the EKC model is estimated...

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Will the natural gas supply meet the demand in North America?

Laherrere, Jean - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 19 (2003) 1, pp. 1-62

The goal of this paper is to deliver to the reader a large number of graphs in order to allow him/her to choose the ones that he/she considers important to form his/her own opinion. Graphs from data are more important than statements which are mainly interpretation and political, but the problem...

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Human Capital Composition, Proximity to Technology Frontier and Productivity Growth

Islam, Md. Rabiul - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2010

The role of human capital composition has been given importance in the most recent endogenous growth models. Assuming that primary as well as secondary education is more suitable for imitation and higher education is more appropriate for innovation, this paper empirically investigates whether...

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The relationship between CO2 and sulphur emissions with income: an alternative explanation to the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis

CANCELO, M. Teresa - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 10 (2010) 1

This analysis studies the role of those factors that are exogenous to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model in causing a weakening in the correlation between GDP per capita and emissions (CO2 and sulphur). The aim is to advance within the EKC research by scrutinizing both the historical...

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Institutionalized Social Technologies Index: A Global Perspective

Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and...

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The Ricardian Vice: Why Sala-i-Martin’s calculations of world income inequality are wrong

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The paper discusses recent world income inequality calculations by Sala- i-Martin. It shows that the two main problems … of income augmented by a constant shift parameter and not a distribution of income among world citizens. …

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