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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365294
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Is Regional Innovative Activity Path-dependent? An Empirical Analysis for Germany
Bode, Eckhardt - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076108
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Logistics and Exports
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Drawing on a new and comprehensive measure of logistics quality, our gravity model suggests logistics in the exporting and partner-country can have an important impact on bilateral exports.  A one standard deviation improvement in the exporter's logistics quality, which for example would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004383
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Regional Convergence and Catch-up in India between 1960 and 1992
Trivedi, Kamakshya - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
This paper examines the evidence for regional convergence or catch-up in levels and growth rates of per capita income …, Re-Weighted Least Squares, and Least Trimmed Squares - establish that unconditional convergence in growth rates does not … obtain, but that there is clear and robust evidence of conditional convergence. This suggests that important differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605213
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The determinants of Italy's regional imbalances over the long run: exploring the contributions of human and social capital
Felice, Emanuele - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
inequality in Italy.  More particularly, convergence in value added per capita across Italy's regions is tested (through both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004271
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Markov or Not Markov, This Should Be a Question
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755218
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Employment Concentration across US Counties
Fafchamps, Marcel; Desmet, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003
becoming more or less concentrated. The existing literature has found deconcentration (convergence) of employment across urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090665
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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955894
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Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration
Geppert, Kurt; Happich, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence … estimation, Markov chain analysis and cross-sectional regressions provide evidence that convergence of regional per-capita income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068841
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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896194