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Growth versus development from Schumpeter to Georgescu-Roegen

Alcouffe, Alain; Ferrari, Sylvie - HAL - 2008

and a theory of continuing, quantitative growth. J. Schumpeter argued forcibly in favour of the development approach while …

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Export Behaviour and Propensity to Innovate in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia

Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat; Ayadi, Mohamed - HAL - 2011

. This article dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. We analyze … the relationship between the export behaviour and the innovation propensity of the firms as it can be qualified using … innovation survey in Tunisia. Our results show that firms that address both the domestic and foreign demands (partial- exporters …

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Determinants of the Innovation Propensity in Tunisia: the Central Role of External Knowledge Sources

Ayadi, Mohamed; Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat - HAL - 2009

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first innovation survey of the Tunisian firms. Starting from basic … mechanisms of innovation processes, we test a set of conjectures adapted to a developing country like Tunisia. We analyze the … from external knowledge sources in order to exhibit significant innovation propensities. The large size is also a necessary …

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Improving aid effectiveness in aid-dependent countries : lessons from Zambia

Beuran, Monica; Raballand, Gaël; Revilla, Julio - HAL - 2011

over forty years ago. While aid is far from the only variable at work in Zambia's development, its impact has been …Zambia was a middle-income country when it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1964. After decades of … international aid Zambia has become a low-income country, and its per capita GDP is only now returning to the levels it had reached …

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Overview of the Current Food Security Crisis in Zambia

Samatebele, Helen M - HAL - 2003

Zambia was economically prosperous at independence (1964), due to the thriving copper industry. Zambia has the … economy. Zambia is one of the countries in the southern Africa sub-region faced with a food crisis attributed to a complex …

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Inequality in Emerging Countries

Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - HAL - 2012

We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly describe the main observed de velopments and show that these are rather diverse across countries and developing regions. We subsequently expose the main theoretical mechanisms. We...

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Modelling Transition And International Opening In Asia: The Case Of Vietnam With A Comparison With China And The "Asian Tigers"

Sand-Zantman, Alain; Brillet, Jean-Louis; Van, Cuong Le; … - HAL - 2000

This paper describes the multisectoral macroeconomic model of a small developing economy in transition, in order to highlight linkages between agriculture and the rest of the economy, and consequences of external opening up. Agriculture is a supply sector, sticky in the short range with market...

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Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world

Hourcade, Jean Charles; Shukla, P.-R.; Mathy, Sandrine - HAL - 2005

from development issues. In addition to the impossibility to get an agreement on rules for quota allocation among all the … parties, this system shows irreconcilable contradictions between climate and development issues. This article aims, starting … from examples of synergies between climate and development, at enunciating bases of an amended Kyoto Protocol which could …

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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2010

ones. Second, development is a qualitative process that involves take-offs and thresholds. Such regime changes are eye …-income countries, they would certainly help measuring and monitoring the different stages and dimensions of the development process. …

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The Great Happiness Moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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