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Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 1997

This paper explores the links between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, the other, from human development to economic growth. The importance of various links in each chain are explored empirically with the help of...

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Why do migrants remit?

de la Briere, Benedicte; de Janvry, Alain; Lambert, Sylvie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997

Two contrasting hypotheses about what motivates Dominican migrants to send remittances to their rural parents in the Sierra are tested: (1) an investment in potential bequests and (2) an insurance contract between parents and migrant children. Remittances from young migrants, males, and migrants...

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"Bargaining" and gender relations

Agarwal, Bina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997

Most discussions on bargaining also say little about gender relations beyond the household, and about the links between extrahousehold and intrahousehold bargaining power. This paper spells out the nature of these complexities and their importance in determining the outcomes of intrahousehold...

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The state of health care priority setting and public participation

Obermann, Konrad; Tolley, Keith - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1997

health service resource allocation; (ii) the importance of different criteria and sources of opinion in current resource … by health authorities of explicit priority setting in resource allocation is generating needs for more information on key … allocation priority setting by health authorities, the importance of additional information needs and changes in the input of …

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Economic Growth and Human Development

Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

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Allocating Monitoring Effort

Watts, Susan G.; Bagnoli, Mark - 1997

In many situations, one party can monitor a second party and chooses how much monitoring to do. However, in many of these situations, monitoring by other parties can (imperfectly) substitute for monitoring by the first party. As a result, the first party may attempt to "free ride" on the...

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Economic growth and human development

Ramírez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 1997

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Weak and strong consistency in additive cost sharing

Friedman, Eric - 1997

In this paper we study consistency in the context of additive cost sharing mechanisms. We contrast an extremely weak notion of consistency with the standard definition, which we denote strong consistency. First we show that many well known CSMs are consistent in both senses: Aumann-Shapley,...

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Allocation of partially renewable resources : concept, models and applications

Schirmer, Andreas; Drexl, Andreas - 1997

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Debts and Deficits with Fragmented Fiscal Policymaking

Velasco, Andres - 1997

This paper develops a political-economic model of fiscal policy - one in which government resources are a common property' out of which interest groups can finance expenditures on their preferred items. This setup has striking macroeconomic implications. Transfers are higher than a benevolent...

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