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The social impact of structural adjustment in Bolivia
Thiele, Rainer - 2001
This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265480
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El impacto social del ajuste estructural en Bolivia
Thiele, Rainer - 2001
Este documento proporciona un recuento de la evolución de la pobreza y la desigualdad durante el ajuste en Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315251
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El impacto social del ajuste estructural en Bolivia
Thiele, Rainer - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714275
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The social impact of structural adjustment in Bolivia
Thiele, Rainer - 2001
This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477213
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El impacto social del ajuste estructural en Bolivia
Thiele, Rainer - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001612915
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Does Access to Improved Sanitation Reduce Childhood Diarrhea in Rural India?
Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012
Almost nine million children under 5 years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause … on diarrheal morbidity for children less than 5 years of age in India. Using propensity score matching, we find that … heterogeneity in the impacts of improved sanitation. We find statistically insignificant treatment effects for children in low or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172515
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Varieties of systems of innovation : a survey of their evolution in growth theory and economic geography
Christ, Julian P. - 2007
The systems of innovation (SI) approach has been established and extended during the last two decades. Although elementary goals and progress have been reached through seminal contributions by Freeman (1987), Lundvall (1992) or Nelson (1993), in designing a generic approach, displaying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958828
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The logic of agglomeration
Duranton, Gilles; Kerr, William R. - 2015
This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists might...
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Public versus Private Investment in Determining Child Health Outcomes : Evidence from India
Balasubramaniam, Divya - 2019
children in India. We use the NFHS 2005-2006 household-level survey data to construct the nutritional distribution for two … anthropometric health measures for children between ages six months to two years: the weight-for-height (“wasting”) and height … the respective nutritional distributions. Further, rural children at the lower end of the nutritional distribution benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012904009
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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...
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