A multivariate technique called principal component analysis is used to combine measures of human development. The first principal component index is the linear combination of component indexes with maximal information content. This multivariate technique accounts for differences in the...

The Laboratory of Forestry economics (LEF) was created in 2000 as a joint research unit of the French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (ENGREF) and the National Institute of Agronomic research (INRA). The mission of the LEF is to conceive, develop, and transfer...

Poitou-Charentes has been facing a difficult economic situation since its was set up as a new administrative entity due to a structural inheritance which is mainly characterised by traditional specialisation in primary sector activities and taylorist industries implemented into the region under...

The main purpose of this paper is to merge together two strands of the literature regarding, either directly or indirectly, infation: the PPP and the Phillips curve ones. In order to accomplish this task, this contribution applies the tools of the Empirical Growth Literature and of Dynamic Panel...

El propósito del artículo es indagar por la interdependencia cíclica del PIB caucano con sus vecinos más cercanos. Bajo la metodología del Filtro de Kalman y Hodrick-Prescott se hallan los ciclos económicos regionales y se implementan sistemas VAR con análisis impulso - respuesta para...

(sample) In this paper, we develop a North-South endogenous growth model to examine three phases of development in the South: imitation of Northern products, imitation and innovation and finally, innovation only. In particular, the model has the features of catching up (and potentially...

Este documento presenta un aporte al estudio de la recientemente creada Región Pacífico compuestapor Cauca, Chocó, Nariño y Valle del Cauca. En una primera parte se reseñan indicadores decoyuntura y luego es evaluada la dinámica de crecimiento de estos departamentos a la luz de lateoría...

This paper looks at the condition and progress of SSA's agriculture as central to growth, poverty reduction, access to employment income, and food security. Agriculture also greatly affects other major components of SSA's human development.

This paper investigates the impact of rare-event experiences and observations on risk taking. Matching detailed individual, household, and community-level surveys with behavioral games data, we explore the mechanisms that underlie individual risk-taking after a natural disaster. Unlike the...

This paper follows Hsieh and Klenow’s (2009) study in examining the role of misallocation in aggregate productivity for manufacturing plants in Punjab, Pakistan. Using data on manufacturing plants in Punjab from the Census of Manufacturing Industries for 2000/01 and 2005/06, we look at the...