Athletes and CEOs: What Do Their Earnings Tell Us about the Income (and Taxation) of the Super Rich?
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
It is understood that investment serves as a shock absorber in times of crisis. The duration of the drag on investment, however, is…
Traditionally, fund flow to local bodies responsible for implementing social programs is based on intended expenditure ratified by higher…
No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico. Its per capita income is the lowest of the 32…
A review of "Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre."
As shown in the 1930s by Hicks and Robinson the elasticity of substitution (s) is
a key parameter that captures whether capital and labor…
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To reduce poverty and food insecurity in Africa requires raising productivity in agriculture.
Systematic use of fertilizer and hybrid seed…