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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s
Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
rose for the interpretation of changes in the poverty profile.Four household surveys are used to show changes in both … that the rise in income was ssociated with modest falls in the head count and poverty gap measures of poverty but with … virtually no change in the severity of poverty measure. The fall in the head count measure was too small to prevent the absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407717
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556956
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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408428
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Inequality, Growth, and Overtaking
Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - EconWPA - 2005
This research develops a theory about the role of within-country income inequality leading to overtaking in economic performance among countries. The theory captures two opposing effects of inequality on factor accumulation and suggests that the qualitative change in their combined effect is a...
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Capital Humano y Crecimiento Económico en México (1970-2000). Human Capital and Economic Growth in Mexico.
Bautista, Alejandro Diaz; Dominguez, Mauro Diaz - EconWPA - 2004
En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...
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Professional Advice
Ottaviani, Marco; Sorensen, Peter - EconWPA - 1999
Professional experts offer advice with the objective of appearing well informed. Their ability is evaluated on the basis of the advice given and the realized state of the world. We model this situation as a reputational cheap-talk game with continuous signal, state, and ability type spaces....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550867
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Reform des Sozialstaats in Deutschland und Frankreich: was auf dem Spiel steht (Welfare state policies in France and Germany : what is really at stake ?)
Lechevalier, Arnaud - EconWPA - 2004
Druck zu mehr Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Wirtschaftswachstum für die gesetzliche Sozialversicherung ergeben. Die … Arbeitsmarkt und in den Lebensläufen der Menschen einerseits und der Sozialpolitik andererseits, neue Überlegungen hauptsächlich im …
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Divide and Conquer
Chen, Zhijun - EconWPA - 2005
Tournaments are well known to be vulnerable to collusion as shown by the impossibility theorem in Ishiguro (2004), which asserts that efficient effort levels are impossible to be implemented through a collusion-proof contract. However, we argue that this impossibility is a product of simple...
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The Cyclical Behaviour of Shadow and Regular Employment
Bovi, Maurizio - EconWPA - 2005
Using the Hodrick-Prescott filter, this paper examines the cyclical properties of the Italian labour market. Its main contribution is the empirical analysis of three different labour inputs - regular employees, regular self-employed and underground workers. Results from VAR models support the...
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