This paper aims at identifying the sources of comparative advantage and the bottlenecks of the Tunisian economy. By using an activity analysis model and yearly data on the input-output structure and the factor endowments, the paper determines the evolution of the potential of the Tunisian economy between 1983 and 1996 and some of its key aspects that the industrial restructuring program of 1996...

Do parents invest more in higher quality children, or do they compensate for lower quality by giving more to children with lower endowments? We answer this question in the context of a large-scale iodine supplementation programme in Tanzania. We find that children with higher programme exposure were more likely to receive necessary vaccines and were breastfed for longer. Siblings of treated chi...

Logistics performance is an important determinant of economic growth. The present study investigates the moderating role logistics logistic infrastructure on growth in developing countries. We employ World Bank computed LPI index year 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 to measure performance. current research includes 50 economies, a panel data set comprising total 300 observations collected. used...

The tropics, sadly, continues to be a belt of poverty. The countries of the tropics all have low or middling incomes, with a few tiny or natural-resource-rich exceptions, and few of the poorest countries are outside of the tropics. The causes of tropical poverty are surely complex, involving initial endowments (Diamond), history, especially colonization, and geographical isolation (Gallup and S...

Insufficient access to assets is the main determinant of poverty. We analyze the role of access to assets in explaining household labor allocation strategies, sources of income, levels of income achieved, and poverty headcount ratios among classes of Mexican rural households. To assess the gains from asset redistribution, we both measure the direct income effects from redistribution and simulat...

As the major labor force has shifted from rural areas to cities, shortages in agricultural production have resulted. In context of technical progress impact, and depending on farm resource endowments, farmers will choose effective saving technology such as machinery substitute for missing manual labor. The reasons behind farmers’ adoption are worth exploring. Therefore, this study uses 4165 Chi...

The contribution of household endowments to poverty in Nigeria has received little attention despite the fact that both human and capital asset endowments are important determinants of poverty outcomes. This paper thus examines empirically the role of household physical and human assets endowments in determining poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1996. Using data from the national consumer sur...

Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for this outcome through related capital an...