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Does the World Bank have any impact on human development in the poorest countries? Some preliminary evidence from Africa
In an attempt to better understand the impact of the World Bank on human development in poor countries, we use cross-country data on African countries, for the 1990-2002 period, to examine this relationship. The coefficient estimates of our parsimonious fixed-effects models indicate that while loans and grants of the Bank have had a positive impact on some relatively short-term indicators of health and education in an average African country, there is little evidence to suggest that such loans and grants have helped these countries to consolidate on the short-term gains
The Chow ring for the classifying space of
Let be the general orthogonal group scheme (the group of orthogonal
similitudes). In the topological category, Y. Holla and N. Nitsure determined
the singular cohomology ring of
the classifying space of the corresponding complex Lie
group in terms of explicit generators and relations. The
author of the present note showed that over any algebraically closed field of
characteristic not equal to , the smooth-\'etale cohomology ring of the classifying algebraic stack
has the same description in terms of generators and relations as the singular
cohomology ring . Totaro defined
for any reductive group over a field, the Chow ring , which is
canonically identified with the ring of characteristic classes in the sense of
intersection theory, for principal -bundles, locally trivial in \'etale
topology. In this paper, we calculate the Chow group over any
field of characteristic different from in terms of generators and
relations.Comment: 11 page
Dysfunctional offsprings of Functional Families: some theoretical considerations during COVID 19
Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987-2005
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in the average (log) earnings of the two religious groups across the years. By contrast, differences in the returns to education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy implications
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