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legal rights for gay men, GDP per capita, democracy and economic globalization tend to benefit gays, primarily by shaping …
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Using World Bank data on institutional quality and the KOF Globalization Index, we examine over 100 countries from 1992 … to 2010 to analyze the relationship between economic and social globalization and six measures of institutional quality …. Theoretically, the incentives of elites to respond to globalization by improving institutions should differ between low-income and …
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relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … using a "long run" first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We … policies) and social globalization (information flows, personal contact and cultural proximity) respectively, controlling for …
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This paper examines whether social spending cushions the effect of globalization on within-country inequality. Using … globalization and inequality. The results confirm that economic globalization - especially economic flows - associates with higher … globalization and inequality. …
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The existing literature on determinants of migration flows typically claims that income differences across countries should be a pushing factor for people's movement. We suggest that institutional quality is a better proxy for the factors that trigger migration. People may well want to stay in...
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concern since it causes irreversible damage and have implications later in life. Recent research suggests globalization is a … globalization effect on child health, in particular in low- and middle-income countries. One factor that could explain such … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how …
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