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This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge...
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recipient countries integrate migrants economically in general. Our calculations reconfirm the reservations by the present …
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This paper studies migrants intentions to return to their origin country by making the distinction between permanent … return, temporary return and participation in temporary return programmes. Using survey data from first generation migrants … in the Netherlands, we explore how migrants experiences regarding both the origin and destination countries are linked to …
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This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We employ both subjective a households subjective economic well-being and objective measures asset holdings and asset accumulation to define household welfare. A matching approach is...
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The aim of this paper is to study the extent to which transfers can contribute to a change in behavior that would be consistent with a reduction in discrimination against women remained in the country. To this end, this research uses macroeconomic aggregate data to check the effect of...
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While everyone agrees that GDP per capita is an inadequate measure of a country’s overall “development” it is difficult to specify what, if anything, should take its place as a useful single summary number (or even just ranking). The Human Development Index is a prominent alternative which...
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This paper provides a framework and estimates of Enrollment Rates per natural and combines them with previous Income and Child Mortality per natural estimates by Clemens and Pritchett (2008) to produce a Human Development Index Per Natural. The methodology is applied for 1990 and 2000 to provide...
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developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the … development of internal migrants compared to non-migrants, and also across countries as well as by urban and rural areas. An … empirical illustration for a sample of 16 low and middle income countries shows that, overall, internal migrants slightly …
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This paper provides a framework and estimates of Enrollment Rates per natural and combines them with previous Income and Child Mortality per natural estimates by Clemens and Pritchett (2008) to produce a Human Development Index Per Natural. The methodology is applied for 1990 and 2000 to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559100