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Issues in South African Social Security [PDF]
This paper, originally written at the time of the political transition, provides an overview of social security issues at that time. A sustained improvement in the living standards of the poor requires economic growth and investment in human capital to ...
Servaas van der Berg
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Information Outlook, October 2002 [PDF]
, 2001 Volume 6, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2002/1009/thumbnail ...
Special Libraries Association
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Aviation security and terrorism: a review of the economic issues [PDF]
Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the passage of the Aviation and Transportation Act mandated a substantial increase in resources devoted to aviation security. This paper summarizes the specific changes stemming from this legislation.
Cletus C. Coughlin +2 more
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Nonlinearity and the permanent effects of recessions [PDF]
This paper presents a new nonlinear time series model that captures a post-recession “bounce-back” in the level of aggregate output. While a number of studies have examined this type of business cycle asymmetry using recession-based dummy variables and ...
Chang-Jin Kim +2 more
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Inefficient education spending in public school districts: a case for consolidation [PDF]
This paper estimates scale economies for Arkansas school districts. Large economies of scale exist in teacher salary and supply costs, as well as total costs.
Marvin E. Dodson, III, Thomas A. Garrett
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Advancement, Spring 2002 [PDF]
, 2000 Advancement, a supplement to Bostonia magazine, provided updates on BU development activities, including major gifts and ...
Boston University Office of Development and Alumni Relations
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Is inflation persistence intrinsic in industrial economies? [PDF]
We apply both classical and Bayesian econometric methods to characterize the dynamic behavior of inflation for twelve industrial countries over the period 1984-2003, using four different price indices for each country.
Andrew T. Levin, Jeremy M. Piger
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Time-varying risk premia and the cross section of stock returns [PDF]
This paper develops and estimates a heteroskedastic variant of Campbell’s (1993) ICAPM, in which risk factors include a stock market return and variables forecasting stock market returns or variance.
Hui Guo
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We study a simple, microfounded macroeconomic system in which the monetary authority employs a Taylor-type policy rule. We analyze situations in which the self-confirming equilibrium is unique and learnable according to Bullard and Mitra (2002).
In-Koo Cho, James Bullard
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A poverty profile of the Western Cape province of South Africa. [PDF]
Poverty reduction and alleviation is a main priority of the South African government. For the Western Cape province to formulate and implement successful, well-targeted policies aimed at reducing poverty it is important to identify exactly who the poor ...
Liezl Nieuwoudt, Morné Oosthuizen
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