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Integración económica y crecimiento regional

Luna, Alexander Arévalo - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2003)

benefits, measured interms of employment, investment and economic growth, falling povertyand enabling some nations to catch up …

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What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes” defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and...

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The Impact of Private Sector Growth on Poverty Reduction : Evidence from Indonesia

Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. We use fixed capital formation growth as the proxy for the private sector and growth in government spending as the indicator of the public sector. We find that growth in both sectors significantly reduces...

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory village planning. We use matching methods and...

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Genuine Saving and the Social Cost of Taxation

Aronsson, Thomas; Cialani, Catia; Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

Following the 1987 report by The World Commission on Environment and Development, the genuine saving has come to play a key role in the context of sustainable development, and the World Bank regularly publishes numbers for genuine saving on a national basis. However, these numbers are typically...

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Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

overestimate this welfare change. We also show how relative consumption concerns affect the way public investment ought to be …

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Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

overestimate this welfare change. We also show how relative consumption concerns affect the way public investment ought to be …

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Can India Achieve Double-digit growth ?

Herd, Richard; Conway, Paul; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

investment. Stepping up structural reforms will also be necessary if double-digit growth rates are to be achievable over the … improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition … and ensure continued strong investment are required. Labour market reforms are also required to promote job creation …

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Investment and trade in biofuels : will there be a Market in the US for developing country ethanol?

Williams, Alphanso; Kerr, William A. - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 14 (2013) 6, pp. 995-1008

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Macroeconomic significance of remittances in developing countries

Mishi, Syden; Mingiri, Kapingura Forget - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 238-253

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