, 2005 Cette recherche a un caractère exploratoire, dans l’optique d’un travail beaucoup plus lourd et systématique qui devait être mené à partir de la fin 2005, sous réserve de l’accord du PREDIT, mais la décision de poursuite des investigations n'est jamais intervenue.Elle vise à explorer une question d’histoire récente relative à la recherche en socio ...
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The power of the strong state: A comparative analysis of the diaspora engagement strategies of India and Ethiopia [PDF]
Migrant-sending countries are increasingly exploring schemes where human capital of expatriates can be used for the benefit of the home country's socioeconomic development.
Hercog, Metka, Kuschminder, Katie
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Africa's growth tragedy : a retrospective, 1960-89 [PDF]
Africa's economic history since 1960 fits the classical definition of tragedy: potential unfulfilled with disastrous consequences. The authors use one mehthodology - cross-country regressions - to account for sub-Saharan Africa's growth performance over ...
Easterly, William, Levine, Ross
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Federal Reserve control of credit [PDF]
In the early days of the Federal Reserve, changes in the discount rate were the principal instrument through which the central bank exercised control over credit conditions. In this -address, Strong explains the use of discount rate changes as a means of
Benjamin Strong
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Early Life Conditions and Financial Risk–Taking in Older Age [PDF]
Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life.
Alberto Motta +2 more
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The Opportunistic approach to monetary policy and financial markets [PDF]
We test the concept of the Opportunistic Approach to monetary policy in South Africa post 2000 inflation targeting regime. Our findings support the two features of the opportunistic approach.
Kasai Ndahiriwe, Ruthira Naraidoo
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The weak jobs recovery: whatever happened to "the great American jobs machine"? [PDF]
Authors Freeman and Rodgers find that the current recovery, which started in 2001, has been the worst in recent history in terms of job creation. They determine that the slow employment growth of the recovery is not attributable to the poor performance ...
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A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India [PDF]
Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth; at the ...
Ravallion, Martin
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Sociodemographic Factors and Determinants of Mental Health in the African American Population A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Acosta-Vinueza Y, Alvear-Reascos R.
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Varying-Parameter Supply Functions and the Sources of Economic Distress in American Agriculture, 1866-1914 [PDF]
The agrarian unrest in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century is examined. This unrest is often viewed as stemming from the inability of farmers to adapt to changing conditions in world agriculture.
Steven J. DeCanio, Thomas F. Cooley
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