Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 19,166
Cover Image
Education and Health at the Household Level in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Appleton, S. - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - 2000
This paper surveys the microeconomic evidence on the determinants of and returns to education and health in sub … fees can have dramatic effects on take-up of health and education services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486875
Cover Image
Economic Growth and Human Development
Ranis, G.; Ramirez, A.; Stewart, F. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997
health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783474
Cover Image
Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera – a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823005
Cover Image
Global Governance and Human Development: Promoting Democratic Accountability and Institutional Experimentation
Jayadev, Arjun - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper seeks to critically examine recent debates on global governance, albeit from a human development perspective. In doing so it identifies and describes two important principles for building institutions for the advancing of human development: what may be termed the imperative of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504426
Cover Image
Economic Growth and Human Development
Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997
health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357715
Cover Image
The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - CESifo - 2008
unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196304
Cover Image
Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy
H. Brooks, Douglas; Hasan, Rana; Lee, Jong-Wha; H. Son, Hyun - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2010
failures. Policy makers should improve access to and quality of health, education, and other social services. This means better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009245396
Cover Image
Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Descriptive Review
Castleman, Tony - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2011
This paper introduces the concept of human recognition, defined as the acknowledgement provided to an individual by other individuals, groups, or organizations that he is of inherent value with intrinsic qualities in common with the recognizer. The sources, effects, and qualities of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320893
Cover Image
The Relationship Between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps
Howitt, Peter; MURTIN, Fabrice; Aghion, Philippe - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 2 (2011) 1
This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of … health. Based on cross-country regressions over the period 1960-2000, where we instrument for both variables, we find that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773898
Cover Image
Economic Growth and Income Disparity in BRIC:Theory and Empirical Evidence
Das, Monica; Das, Sandwip Kumar - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
The recent interest in the development processes of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has been triggered …>Russia</li> <li>India</li> <li>China</li> </ul> </li> <li><b><i>Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Poverty:</i></b> <ul> <li … Distribution</li> </ul> </li> <li><b><i>Descriptive Statistics and Basic Regression Estimates for BRIC:</i></b> <ul> <li>India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115434