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compositions of educational attainment and race. We find that a higher number of homosexuals in relatively higher educated areas is … influence and negative influence is lower when the number of black residents increases. This suggests that education is … associated with a greater revealed tolerance for homosexuals, but the influence of education is less for areas with a higher …
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This paper was presented at 15:00 hours local time in Ankara, Turkey on 11th September 2001. On the basis of an economic analysis of the world economy it surmises an entry into an ‘age of war’ – a period of financial and military competition between advanced countries comparable to the...
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. Inequality is measured as the ratio between GDP per capita in the IMF’s ‘Advanced countries’ and all remaining countries, in …
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weight of two decades of accelerating economic stagnation, accompanied by universally growing inequality. The governments of … the advanced nations, who have provoked and lived off this phase of world development, now face problems no longer …
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South has doubled. Inequality is measured as the ratio between GDP per capita in the IMF’s ‘Advanced countries’ and all …
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Westra and Alan Zuege (eds) Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization, pp195-215. London: McMillan …
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Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development … encompasses comprehensive issues like health, education, equality, and liveability while growth is too narrow a concept. This … paper analyses the growth and development experience in India using multiple indicators. Development seems to have lagged …
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-sharing between the two generations, so that poor families experience higher agency costs, therefore inequality persists. …
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We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits … they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority … groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural resistance. Economic and cultural incentives interact in surprising …
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Most education around the globe is public. Moreover, investment rates in education as well as schooling attainments … education, and their general equilibrium effects. We calibrate the model to fit cross-country evidence on demographics and … mortality rates, explain most of the differences. We also use the model to the role of public education and the HIV …
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