although improvement and accumulation of human capital is depending on state policy, every state hasn't this capability. meritocratic bureaucracies, extractive capability, acconntability and rationalization of relations with society promote capacity and authonomy in developmental state model. according to the study hypothesis, structure and nature of the ninth and tenth governments was the...

although improvement and accumulation of human capital  depends on state policy, every state hasn't this capability. meritocratic bureaucracies, extractive capability, accountability and rationalization of relations with society promote capacity and autonomy in developmental state model. according to the study hypothesis, structure and nature of the ninth and tenth governments was the main...

This is a review of the history of labor migration as it has affected the Arab world from the oil boom of the early 1970s to the present, with particular attention to the changing flow of remittances from migrants to their country of origin. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

Oil is a major source of income for Ecuador and since the 1970s has been the " engine " of the nation's economy. Before the 1970s oil price boom, Ecuador was one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Since then, oil production has been the primary cause of Ecuador's economic growth, which has averaged 7% annually. Per capita income rose from US$ 290 in 1972 to US$ 1 200 in 2000. Today, oil...

This paper addresses the question of whether the Bolivian gas boom of the 1990s has bypassed large parts of the poor population, thereby leading to increasing inequalities in an already unequal society. Using a Computable General Equilibrium model that is sequentially linked to a microsimulation model, we examine the transmission channels through which the large resource inflows related to the ...