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Working Paper 2014-346 Abstract An ideal state of development, when viewed with fantasy, is nothing but a state or condition

Working Paper 2014-345 Abstract Recent evidence on the impact of the crisis on developed countries shows that the changes in

Working Paper 2014-344 Abstract This study proposes a novel approach for estimating the rules governing the distribution of resources among

Working Paper 2014-343 Abstract Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence

Working Paper 2014-342 Abstract This paper is concerned with the measurement of the extent of deprivation when the available information

Working Paper 2014-341 Abstract We develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of

Working Paper 2014-340 Abstract Skaperdas (1996) characterized the contest success function (CSF), which stipulates the winning probabilities of the contestants,

Working Paper 2014-339 Abstract To analyse the impacts of North-South globalization (NSG) and North-North globalization (NNG) upon social segmentation in

Working Paper 2014-338 Abstract The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. More recently, the concepts and measures have

Working Paper 2014-337 Abstract Colombia’s decentralization was conceived to improve population’s access to social services, reduce poverty and equalize well-being

Working Paper 2014-336 Abstract Are macroeconomic factors such as income inequality the real root causes of financial crises? We explore