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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Labour market externalities and regional growth in Sweden: The importance of labour mobility between skill-related industries

Boschma, Ron; Eriksson, Rikard; Lindgren, Urban - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013

This study investigates the relationship between labour market externalities and regional growth based on real labour flows. In particular, we test for the importance of labour mobility across so-called skill-related industries. We make use of a sophisticated indicator that measures the degree...

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Regional variety and employment growth in Italian labour market areas: services versus manufacturing industries

Mameli, Francesca; Iammarino, Simona; Boschma, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of regional sectoral diversity on regional employment growth in Italy over the period 1991-2001. Assuming that externalities may be stronger between industries selling similar products or sharing the same skills and technology (i.e. related industries), we...

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