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Download or read book Essays on the Impact of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity on Economic Growth and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Camille Hémet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Birds of a Feather Cannot Always Flock Together written by Camille Hémet and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diversity reflects the extent to which members of a given community share different characteristics, usually pertaining to ethnicity, socio-economic status or even culture. As a result of trade development and economic integration, modern societies have to cope with increasing levels of diversity, both in terms of origins and social statuses. The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the social and economic impacts of local diversity. More precisely, this thesis shows how neighborhood level diversity affects individuals' living conditions and employment prospects. This work contributes to the existing literature in three ways: it examines unexplored issues at a very local level, gives new insights about the underlying mechanisms and provides new methods to address the endogeneity issue. Chapter 1 shows that diversity in terms of origins has a negative effect on the quality of local public goods, due to vandalism, not deterred by social policing, and due to collective action failure to ensure effective property management. However, it has no robust effect on public safety. Chapter 2 reveals that the effect of unemployment on crime has a spatial dimension: for economic crimes the effect of unemployment rate in surrounding neighborhoods is stronger than that of the immediate neighborhood, while the reverse holds for vandalism. Chapter 3 shows that people living in a diverse neighborhood face lower employment prospects, but that this effect is more related to cultural (e.g. language) diversity than to ethnic diversity. Chapter 4 develops a model rationalizing the fact that ethnic minorities turn to the informal economy in response to adverse labor market conditions.
Author : Hiroyuki Hino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139537040
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa written by Hiroyuki Hino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle by which to examine the economic development of Africa, arguing that it is a more fluid and contingent concept than economic models allow. Instead, the authors explore the actual experience of ethnicity in Africa and propose new methods of measuring ethnic diversity and inequalities. Finally some tentative conclusions are reached regarding appropriate policy reforms.
Author : Shahrukh Rafi Khan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003831559
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Ethnicity and Development written by Shahrukh Rafi Khan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity and Development explores the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the success or failure of nations and uses case studies of Bangladesh and Pakistan to illustrate this. It analyzes the role of institutions in engendering economic and social progress and challenges the New Institutional Economics (NIE) narrative. The book argues that the NIE narrative has some gaps, particularly that it is blind to ethnic fragmentation and therefore does not account for the construction of institutions that can build national cohesion in low- and low-middleincome countries (L/LMICs). It shows that L/LMICs have a different cultural context and that they need to first build national cohesion on a foundation of horizontal – across ethnic groups – and vertical – across classes – equity. The author’s analysis also examines other novel issues, such as the boost that is provided by nations acquiring the right of self-determination. Other novelties are the distinction between prime causes (triggers) for economic development and approaches for economic development. More important for this book is the distinction between natural and constructed nations and the conceptual framework presented to analyze their performance. Finally, the study examines the creation of national cohesion in ethnically diverse nations. Addressing a gap in the literature, this book will be of interest to researchers in development economics, political science and sociology and specialists in comparative politics/political theory with a focus on Area Studies.
Author : Sangick Jeon
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Diversity written by Sangick Jeon and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed amongst scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners that ethnic and cultural mixing can threaten social prosperity. When communities and societies are comprised of individuals from different ethnic backgrounds and cultural beliefs, they tend to fractionalize and fight along those differences, in the worst cases triggering horrific forms of human oppression and violence. However, there is growing evidence in the social and behavioral sciences that diversity, because it is generally associated with greater variety of useful skills and insights, improves economic productivity and performance at intellective tasks like problem-solving, decision-making, and prediction -- skills that are critical for building smart, prosperous, and robust societies. The tradeoffs imposed by diversity raise a number of questions of increasing practical importance in today's world of globalization and cultural integration. If diversity generates both costs and benefits, what explains when one of the two opposing forces dominate? What is the net impact of diversity on the rate of social, political, and economic progress? What kinds of public policies and interventions can enable multiethnic groups and societies to minimize the costs of diversity while simultaneously realizing its benefits? This dissertation develops answers to these questions in the form of three analytical essays, drawing on insights and research methodologies from a number of disciplines, including political science, economics, social psychology, and organizational behavior. Altogether the essays provide a theoretical and empirical foundation for adjudicating between competing theories about diversity's tradeoffs and strategies for managing them.
Author : Parul Mathur
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Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Essays on Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance written by Parul Mathur and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Altynai Mukambaeva
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (138 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Economic Growth and Convergence written by Altynai Mukambaeva and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geraldine Jahnke-Stübs
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Cultural diversity and economic growth written by Geraldine Jahnke-Stübs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erkan Gören
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book How Ethnic Diversity Affects Economic Development written by Erkan Gören and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the empirical relationship between the two concepts of ethnicity and economic growth. Ethnicity is assumed to affect economic growth through a number of possible transmission channels that are generally included in cross-country growth regressions by proposing an extended econometric system of equations to describe growth and the channel variables. The system incorporates new channel variables for the potential indirect effects of ethnicity that are important in the process of economic development. The results, based on a sample of 95 countries for the period 1960-1999, suggest that the concept of ethnic fractionalization is a strong predictive measure for the direct effect of ethnicity on growth, whereas the concept of ethnic polarization has non-negligible indirect economic effects through the specified channel variables.
Author : Jung Dae Bae (Ph. D. in economics)
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Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Economic Implications of Immigration and Diversity written by Jung Dae Bae (Ph. D. in economics) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As high-skilled immigration has accelerated in recent decades, the workforces of developed nations has become more diverse. The first chapter, “Cross-Ethnic Diversity and Innovative Output”, explores the implications of this diversity in the context of scientific and innovative productivity.
Author : Ceren Ozgen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789036103664
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Impacts of Immigration and Cultural Diversity on Innovation and Economic Growth written by Ceren Ozgen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book International Comparisons of Educational Attainment written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quamrul H. Ashraf
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Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations written by Quamrul H. Ashraf and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion benefited from enhanced assimilation, lower cultural diversity, and more intense accumulation of society-specific human capital. Thus, they operated more efficiently with respect to their production-possibility frontiers and flourished in the technological paradigm that characterized the agricultural stage of development. The lack of cultural diffusion and its manifestation in cultural rigidity, however, diminished the ability of these societies to adapt to a new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of development. Consistently with the theory, the empirical analysis establishes that (i) geographical isolation prevalent in pre-industrial times (i.e., prior to the advent of airborne transportation technology) has had a persistent negative impact on the extent of contemporary cultural diversity; (ii) pre-industrial geographical isolation had a positive impact on economic development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and (iii) cultural diversity, as determined exogenously by pre-industrial geographical isolation, has had a positive impact on economic development in the process of industrialization.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309452961
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
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ISBN 13 : 9781107236455
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle by which to examine the economic development of Africa, arguing that it is a more fluid and contingent concept than economic models allow. Instead, the authors explore the actual experience of ethnicity in Africa and propose new methods of measuring ethnic diversity and inequalities. Finally some tentative conclusions are reached regarding appropriate policy reforms.
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231004522
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Cities, Culture and Creativity written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and creativity have untapped potential to deliver social, economic, and spatial benefits for cities and communities. Cultural and creative industries are key drivers of the creative economy and represent important sources of employment, economic growth, and innovation, thus contributing to city competitiveness and sustainability. Through their contribution to urban regeneration and sustainable urban development, cultural and creative industries make cities more attractive places for people to live in and for economic activity to develop. Culture and creativity also contribute to social cohesion at the neighborhood level, enable creative networks to form and advance innovation and growth, and create opportunities for those who are often socially and economically excluded. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a deep impact on the cultural sector, yet it has also revealed the power of cultural and creative industries as a resource for city recovery and resilience. More generally, cities are hubs of the creative economy and have a critical role to play in harnessing the transformative potential of cultural and creative industries through policies and enabling environments at the local level. 'Cities, Culture, and Creativity' (CCC) provides guiding principles and a CCC Framework, developed by UNESCO and the World Bank, to support cities in unlocking the power of cultural and creative industries for sustainable urban development, city competitiveness, and social inclusion. Drawing from global studies and the experiences of nine diverse cities from across the world, the CCC Framework offers concrete guidance for the range of actors -- city, state, and national governments; creative industry and related private-sector organizations; creatives; culture professionals and civil society-- to harness culture and creativity with a view to boosting their local creative economies and building resilient, inclusive, and dynamic cities.
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ISBN 13 : 9781139532341
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle by which to examine the economic development of Africa, arguing that it is a more fluid and contingent concept than economic models allow. Instead, the authors explore the actual experience of ethnicity in Africa and propose new methods of measuring ethnic diversity and inequalities. Finally some tentative conclusions are reached regarding appropriate policy reforms.
