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Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household survey data to dig into these trends and provide...
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Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...
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. Using population per value adjusted acre as a measure of population pressure, our results indicate that on the eve of the … Great Famine of 1846{50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor … quality housing. But while our analysis shows that population pressure was one of the primary factors underpinning pre …
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. Using population per value adjusted acre as a measure of population pressure, our results indicate that on the eve of the … Great Famine of 1846-50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor … quality housing. But while our analysis shows that population pressure was one of the primary factors underpinning pre …
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We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
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This paper studies the age-group-specific evolution of inequality of total income among highly and less educated … associated decompositions by different income components. On the other hand, it investigates the extent to which changes in Gini … coefficients were associated with a redistribution of total income between the bottom 40 percent, the middle class, and the top 10 …
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The reduction in real disposable cash income was due to the economic difficulties caused by the proliferation of the … population went down by 3.0% in real terms against 2019, while the amount of remuneration of wages and salaries of employees …
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transitional cycles. The calibrated model shows that multiple equilibria can explain a considerable fraction of the global income …
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transitional cycles. The calibrated model shows that multiple equilibria can explain a considerable fraction of the global income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130458
Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality, backwardness) appear in a somewhat different light than in many current discussions, especially by sociologists, radical economists and political scientists. In the present paper the...
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