This paper has a specific objective of being useful for showing how the advances in mobile technologies can help for solving social and political aspects involved in the reform of subsidies in developing countries. It describes the work done to build a mobile-based supportive network that integrates all subsidies partners: governmental, non-governmental organizations, merchants, and beneficiari...

We study the role of unemployment in the context of the endogeneous formation of a monocentric city in which firms set efficiency wages to deter shirking. We first show that, in equilibrium, the employed locate at the vicinity of the city-center, the unemployed reside at the city-edge and firms set up in the city-center. We then show that there is a ‘spatial mismatch’ between location and jobs ...

By creating a knowledge base that reduces innovation costs, imitation can serve as a stepping stone enabling …rms from lagging countries to undertake innovation. This paper constructs a product cycle model with this feature to determine what forces could cause a lagging country to shift R&D from imitation toward innovation. Increasing resources or subsidizing R&D in the lagging South increases ...

We analyze some characteristics of the higher education system in Argentina regarding equity and efficiency. Individuals attending the university belong to the top deciles of the income distribution and to relatively highly educated families. Almost 90% of the students in tuition-free public universities have higher than median per capita family income and almost 50% attended tuition-financed p...

January 2011 Abstract Large populations in the developing world lack adequate access to products, such as essential medicines, whose use confers positive externalities. Because of the critical role played by the privatesector distribution channel, donors (e.g., the Global Fund) are beginning to devote substantial resources to fund subsidies that encourage the channel to improve the availability...

A firm whose profits increase when outsiders believe that it pays high wages may induce its workers to over-consume goods that signal high compensation. One implication is that firms may lobby government to subsidize fringe benefits with high signaling value, such as company cars, to their employees. We show that under plausible conditions the provision of fringe benefits indeed can signal the ...

We explore the relationship between welfare regime and climate policy attitudes. The synergy hypothesis suggests that social environmental policies can reinforce each other. Thus, more universal generous state model (i.e., regime) is said to provide especially fertile ground for advancing policies. Using multilevel modeling European Social Survey Round 8 data (including 23 countries in Europe I...