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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250
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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475007
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The analysis of policies to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty
Wilson, Edgar James - 2009
A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457324
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The analysis of policies to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty [FAST version]
Wilson, Edgar James - 2009
A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457368
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Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right?
Srinivasan, T.N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish - 1999
The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444171
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Economic growth, inequality and technology adoption in transitional economies
Ratnasiri, Nawaratne Gedara Shyama Chandani - 2009
across countries. This thesis constructs a dynamic general equilibrium model in which technology adoption is costly and … technology adoption process depending on productivity differences between the technologies. These are appropriately labeled as …‟ decision to switch technology which leads to a disparity in incomes across households in the technology adoption process. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438393
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Empirical Puzzles of Chilean Stabilization Policy
Calvo, Guillermo A.; Mendoza, Enrique G. - 1998
This paper reviews Chilean stabilization policy during the 1990s andargues that, while the merits of Chilean policy should be praised, there are fourpuzzles in conventional interpretations of the Chilean experience worth studying.First, the policy of targeting indexed interest rates does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450769
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Foreign direct investment and its importance to the economy of South Africa
Asafo-Adjei, Augustina - 2007
This study focuses on foreign direct investment ("FDI") and its importance to the economy of South Africa. Recognising that FDI, notwithstanding the type, can contribute to economic growth and development, most countries including South Africa are constantly working to attract it, and hence its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457743
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THE EFFECTS OF EXCHANGE RATE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
SELIMI, Nasir; SELIMI, Valdrina - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to analyse empirically the effects of exchange rate on economic growth in the FYROM. We apply the OLS approach to estimate the regression equation and present the model that analyzes the impacts of exchange rate on economic growth. As the dependent variable is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716427