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We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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administrative data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, and use province …
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investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico – firms' wage reports to the …
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This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries …
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focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
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labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …
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of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …, demographic factors that measure population density, the proportion of the elderly, and health infrastructure including per capita …-risk populations in developing countries like India …
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This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of … the impact of a cluster of poor institutions and/or infrastructure on performance …
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scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …
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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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