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The Intergenerational Effects of Market Access: Evidence from Rural India
Close to a billion people today live in poorly connected areas without access to all-weather roads. In response, countries around the world spent 3.75 percent of global GDP in 2015 on improving transport infrastructure. But are these investments likely to be pro-poor? In this paper, we examine the impact of improved ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/ahsan-intergenerational-effects-of-market-access-evidence-from-rural-india
Understanding the Globally-Mobile, Young Consumers from the Emerging Markets
Key Points In 2016, 544,500 Chinese students studied abroad. 91.49% among them were selffunded. In the academic year of 2015-16, about one-third of the 1,043,839 international students in the U.S. were from China. These international students are not necessarily the early adopters of Western trends, as they may ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/understanding-globally-mobile-young-consumers-from-emerging-markets-tlb19-chen
Creating Skills to Promote Social Opportunity and Reduce Poverty
Key insights James Heckman, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, delivered a lecture organized by the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study and cosponsored by HKUST IEMS drawing from recent advances in economics, sociology, and child development to emphasize ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2015/creating-skills-to-promote-social-opportunity-and-reduce-poverty-james-heckman
Wealth Accumulation and Inequality of Opportunities: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
The conference is devoted to investigating the dynamics of inequality in China in terms of the production and the transmission of inequalities in a rapidly changing environment. Over the last decade, the emergence of new markets (housing and capital markets in particular) and the increased mobility of factors ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2013/piketty-wealth-accumulation-and-inequality-of-opportunities-comparative-and-historical-perspectives
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