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López, Ramón - 2009

"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...

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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling

Hou, Xiaohui - 2009

"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …

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Expanding the measure of wealth : indicators of environmentally sustainable development

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Human Capital for More Jobs

World Bank - 2025

This note discusses how human capital is a job connector and driver of entrepreneurship. It first presents ideas on how to unlock the barriers to accessing productive employment, with particular attention to the challenges facing women and youth. It then discusses human capital as a job creator,...

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Public finance, security, and development : a framework and an application to Afghanistan

Byrd, William Anderson - 2009

"Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the...

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The impact of EU accession on human capital formation : can migration fuel a brain gain?

Farchy, Emily - 2009

"Can a brain drain be good for development? Many studies have established the theoretical possibility of such a brain gain. Yet it is only recently that the relaxation of data constraints has allowed for sound empirical assessments. In utilizing the dramatic policy change that accompanied...

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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...

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Economic modeling of income, different types of capital and natural disasters

Markandya, Anil - 2009

"This paper provides empirical estimates of the impacts of natural disasters on different forms of capital (with a focus on human and intangible capital and natural capital), and on real gross domestic product per capita. The types of disaster considered are droughts, earthquakes, floods, and...

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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child health and education. One hypothesis for this...

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