Economic Growth and Development
infant mortality rate (IMR) to 415 infant deaths per 1000 births, and life expectancy fell to 9 years (Dyson, 2005). Epidemic di ...
similar income levels. ‘The worldwide decline in mortality after WWII happened because two hundred years of progress against mor ...
Stage three: mortality continues to decline but at a slower rate, fertility begins to fall rapidly, population growth rates slow ...
Fertility falls rapidly in this third stage. Increasing female literacy typically associated with economic growth has three effe ...
from illiterate women. This seems to contradict the central place often given to education in empowering women in household, emp ...
As with the second stage, the third stage of the demographic transition was rapid in East Asia. There was a sharp improvement in ...
(especially) more children. After 1984 the government renounced forced ster- ilization/abortion and often allowed a second child ...
women has worsened with rising incomes. A more extended discussion of the phenomenon of missing women can be found in McCartney ...
(predominantly Sikh and Hindu) have a tiny share of Muslims (Drèze and Sen, 1995:ch7). Predominantly Islamic Bangladesh has witn ...
increases, so does the level of her dowry. There is no evidence that an educated woman is regarded as a more worthy economic ass ...
1.231, 1.838 and 1.167 for mothers who received ultrasound imaging as part of a pre-natal check-up (Arnold et al.,2002). Despite ...
taken to doctors (Chen et al., 1981; Alderman and Gertler, 1997) and to be immu- nized (Arnold et al.,1998; Hazarika, 2000; Mish ...
Chapter 5 Technology and economic growth The general pattern of economic growth over the last few decades that we noted in Chapt ...
Figure 5.1 shows it would otherwise run into diminishing returns, as at point A there is little scope left to raise output by fu ...
Biased technological change: the green revolution and industrialization Technological change can be biased such that it favours ...
agricultural output in many developing countries through new seed types, and better fertilizer and pesticides. Figure 5.4 shows ...
change (Mokyr, 1990:256). Across Europe resistance to new technology came from guilds of skilled artisans fearful of unemploymen ...
ways. In 1870 at the Battle of Sadowa, Prussia was able to carry its field army of 285,000 men over five railway lines to concen ...
In reality markets within which International Technology Transfer (ITT) takes place are subject to various market failures. Firs ...
uncertain. Protection against imports or the provision of subsidies may give space for firms to learn without facing the potenti ...
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