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Measuring Poverty and Human Capital Development in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2010
Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa … African country to be followed. The present paper introduces an analysis and assessment of measurements for human development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227946
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Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Economy in India
Singh, Bhanu Pratap - 2020
‘They will go to die there, where there is life ’. COVID-19 lockdown flooded streets with migrant labourers which were marching to their villages to find warmth and empathy. Many reached their homes but several failed and died on streets and railway tracks. The current study offers insights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015212208
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Multiplier Decomposition, Poverty and Inequality in Income Distribution in a SAM Framework: the Vietnamese Case
Pansini, Rosaria Vega - 2008
. The approach we propose in this paper allows analyzing the level of inequality in the distribution of income linking the … the level of poverty and inequality to policy measures will be to derive the “accounting price multipliers matrix”, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215508
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Immigration, diversity and institutions
Roupakias, Stelios; Dimou, Spiridoula - 2020
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and host countries’ institutional quality, using international migration data, and two composite metrics, encompassing multiple dimensions of governance. Moreover, we construct indicators of cultural diversity, such as fractionalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220564
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Geography, Institutions and Human Development: A Cross-Country Investigation Using Bayesian Model Averaging
Malik, Sadia Mariam; Janjua, Yasin - 2010
legacy, and some direct measures of political and economic governance – on human development and its non income components … dominant and robust role of malaria ecology in explaining differences in human development across countries, even in the … malaria ecology has a direct negative impact on human development and this effect appears to be over and above its effect via …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015222864
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Inequality and fractionalization
Casey, Gregory P.; Owen, Ann L. - 2010
and suggest that some of the previous findings regarding the effect of income inequality on development should be … better than income inequality when both are treated as endogenous. To do so, we identify instruments for ethnic … fractionalization and income inequality based on historical experience. Using instrumental variables estimation, we find that ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223448
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The Full Value of the Nobel Prize - Part 1: Mining “Data Without Theory”
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - 2011
This paper comes in two parts, this being the first. Part 1 is not a research paper in the sense of the Scientific Method; it is rather unsophisticated data mining - a cheap data mining exercise for that matter, because it does not follow any received economic, or other, theory. In the sense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015228565
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Common tongue: The impact of language on economic performance
Jain, Tarun - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of language on economic performance. I use the 1956 reorganization of Indian states on linguistic lines as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of speaking the majority language on educational and occupational outcomes. I find that districts that spoke...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229100
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Minimum Wage Legislation and Economic Growth: Channels and Effects
Mo, Pak Hung - 2011
Despite decades of experience and research, the effects of minimum wage legislation (MWL) on long-run economic performance have rarely been studied since Stigler’s (1946) classic exposition about the shortcomings of MWL. In this study, we use a novel method to estimate the magnitude and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230036
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Inequality and fractionalization
Casey, Gregory P.; Owen, Ann L. - 2010
and suggest that some of the previous findings regarding the effect of income inequality on development should be … better than income inequality when both are treated as endogenous. To do so, we identify instruments for ethnic … fractionalization and income inequality based on historical experience. Using instrumental variables estimation, we find that ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230903