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Chapter 1. Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
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Mobilising institutional investor capital for climate-aligned development
Halland, Håvard - 2021
categories of long-term investors – institutional investors and multilateral finance institutions. That opens new opportunities …
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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...
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Chapter 26. Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005
This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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Chapter 4. MAMS A Computable General Equilibrium Model for Developing Country Strategy Analysis
Lofgren, Hans; Cicowiez, Martin; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 159-276). 2013
This chapter presents MAMS (Maquette for MDG Simulations), a recursive-dynamic CGE model developed at the World Bank for analysis of medium- to long-run country strategies for low- and middle-income countries, including strategies aimed at improving MDG (Millennium Development Goals) outcomes....
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Malaysia's economic success story and challenges
Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Nixon, Stewart; … - 2017
Malaysia has sustained over four decades of rapid, inclusive growth, reducing its dependence on agriculture and commodity exports to become a more diversified, modern and open economy. GDP per capita is now higher than in a number of OECD economies, while poverty and income inequality have...
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Culture, entrepreneurship and economic development : an empirical approach
Achim, Monica Violeta; Borlea, Sorin Nicolae; Vaidean, … - In: Entrepreneurship research journal : ERJ 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-28
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Chapter 6 Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A. - 2005
political power. The distribution of political power in society is in turn determined by political institutions and the … distribution of resources. Political institutions allocate de jure political power, while groups with greater economic might … with political institutions and the distribution of resources as the state variables. These variables themselves change …
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The effect of the size and the mix of public spending on growth and inequality
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Johansson, Åsa - 2016
This paper provides evidence on the effects of the size and the composition of public spending on long-term growth and inequality. An estimated baseline convergence model captures the long-term effect of human capital and total investment on potential output for a panel of OECD countries. The...
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