- How macroeconomic factors affect income distribution : the cross-country evidence
- Michael Sarel / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The effects of macroeconomic factors on income distribution are of major concern to economists and have critical policy implications. Surprisingly, despite the fact that income distribution is one of the most investigated issues in ec...
- Tax effort in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Janet Gale Stotsky; A WoldeMariam / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Many sub-Saharan African countries face difficulty in raising tax revenue for public purposes. Low per capita incomes, an economic base in subsistence agriculture, poorly structured tax systems, and weak tax and customs administration...
- Towards a system of multilateral unit labor cost-based competitiveness indicators for advanced, developing, and transition countries
- Anthony G Turner; S.S Golub / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Economic Outlook for East Asia 1998
- Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 1997
- Neglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?
- R. Blench / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat s...
- Improving access of smallholders to agricultural services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Farmer cooperation and the role of the donor community
- R. Stringfellow; J. Coulter; T. Lucey; C. McKone; A. Hussain / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Successful cooperation among smallholders requires a close match between their existing experience and financial capacity and the types of cooperation required by any joint activity. It is often built on previous cooperative experienc...
- Non-communicable diseases are already public health challenges in all regions
- C.J.L. Murray; A.D. Lopez / The Lancet, 1997
- Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury. Medically certified information is available for less than 30 perc...
- The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector
- I. Wallace; E. Nilsson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which...
- Global Health-For-All Indicators
- WHO Statistical Information Service, 1999
- Country tables presents the most recent values available for the 74 indicators which have been selected for the third evaluation of the HFA strategy. Indicators cover socio-economic development, environment, health resources, health s...
- Oral diseases : statistical data
- World Health Organization, 1999
- Global overiew of oral diseases, including dental caries, peridontal diseases, diseases of soft tissues of the mouth.
- The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector
- I. Wallace; E. Nilsson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which...
- Global Health-For-All Indicators
- WHO Statistical Information Service, 1999
- Country tables presents the most recent values available for the 74 indicators which have been selected for the third evaluation of the HFA strategy. Indicators cover socio-economic development, environment, health resources, health s...
- Oral diseases : statistical data
- World Health Organization, 1999
- Global overiew of oral diseases, including dental caries, peridontal diseases, diseases of soft tissues of the mouth.
- Regional patterns of disability-free life expectancy and disability-adjusted life expectancy: Global Burden of Disease Study
- C.J.L. Murray; A.D. Lopez / ProCor, 1997
- Information on non-fatal health outcomes of disease and injury has been largely neglected in health planning because of the conceptual and definitional complexity of measuring morbidity and disability in populations. One of our major ...
- Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study
- C.J.L. Murray; A.D. Lopez / ProCor, 1997
- Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of commo...
- From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador
- Sven Wunder / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
- In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are s...
- West African regional security in the post Liberian conflict era : issues and perspectives
- Gani Joses Yoroms; Emmanuel Kwesi Aning / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
- The paper attempts to analyse ECOWAS’ security regime’s first major effort towards enforcing compliance with its norms and values. The recent resolution of the Liberian conflict and Charles Taylor’s election to the Pres...
- White Paper on Japan's Foreign Direct Investment 1998: summary
- Japan External Trade Organisation, 1998
- With a focus on Japan, considers trends in global foreign direct investment, and offers a country/region overview. Includes supporting statistical data.
- World Labour Report 1997-98: Industrial relations, democracy and social stability
- International Labour Organization, 1999
- The summary and statistical appendix of this report are available on WWW. Statistics cover: trade union membership and activities; number of strikes; collective bargaining structures; unemplyment and labour force structure. Tra...
- How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: a General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data
- R Heltberg / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1996
- The subject of this article is the alleged inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in developing countries. The recent controversy is reviewed, and a framework is provided to explain the inverse relationship based on p...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Revista de Educação e Pesquisa em Contabilidade (RePEc)
- Open access journal on education and research in accounting.
- German Council for Social and Economic Data / Rates für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
- The German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) is an independent body of empirical researchers from universities, colleges, and other independent research institutions as well as representatives of important data producers and service centres. Working papers series deal primarily with the organisation of Germany’s official statistical system, government agency research,...
- The Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
- Business school in the United States
- Gapminder
- Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Gapminder is an operating foundation that provides sevices as defined by the board, s...
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
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