Infrastructure and Poverty Traps
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether infrastructure development helps poor economies escape low‐income traps or transition to higher‐income levels. Infrastructure has always been central to development policies and is critical for achieving the SDGs.
A. Olatunji, L. Ado‐Kofie, B. Ouattara
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Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento
ABSTRACT As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince +16 more
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Desigualdade regional e pobreza no Brasil: a evolução 1981-1995
Desigualdade regional e pobreza no Brasil: a evolução 1981 ...
Sonia Rocha
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Mesorregião Grande Fronteira do Mercosul: perfil locacional do desenvolvimento regional
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o perfil das desigualdades regionais na área de abrangência na região Grande Fronteira do Mercosul (GFM), através da mensuração do coeficiente de desenvolvimento regional e do padrão de localização do emprego formal. No
Jandir Ferrera de Lima +1 more
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Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries [PDF]
This paper develops a micro-econometric method to account for differences across distributions of household income. Going beyond the determination of earnings in labor markets, we also estimate statistical models for occupational choice and for the ...
Bourguignon, François +2 more
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History and Legacy of Andean Research in Nuñoa, Peru
ABSTRACT The high‐altitude town and associated political district of Nuñoa, Peru, has served as an anthropological field research site for more than 60 years. The earliest studies were initiated by Paul T. Baker and his students from Penn State University in 1962.
Michael A. Little +2 more
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Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production
Abstract As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince +16 more
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Contested parenting and its affective economies: A commentary
Abstract In stringing together the fine‐grained ethnographic studies that comprise this special issue of Ethos, “Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves,” our commentary is designed to go beyond the micro‐setting of daily routines to the emotional entanglements of family relationships within wider economic and political networks. Calling on the
Claudia Fonseca
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Agglomeration externalities and 1981-2006 regional growth in Brazil [PDF]
This paper focuses on manufacturing employment growth across the 26 states of Brazil. We employ the Glaeser et al. (1992) approach to identify the role played by knowledge externalities in growth and convergence.
Holmes, Mark J. +3 more
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Impacto dos iventimentos do PAC sobre o desenvolvimento e a desigualdade dos Municípios de Minas Gerais [PDF]
XX Encontro Nacional de Economia Política: desenvolvimento Latino-Americano, Integração e Inserção Internacional - UNILA, Foz do Iguaçu, 26 a 29 de maio de 2015O presente trabalho buscou analisar o impacto socioeconômico de um conjunto de investimentos ...
Gomes, Laura Calvi +1 more
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