Inequality, Human Capital and Development: Making the Theory Face the Facts
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Keywords
Income inequality; financial constraints; fertility differentials; human capital; economic growth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2009-12-11 (Development)
- NEP-HAP-2009-12-11 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HRM-2009-12-11 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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