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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal : disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslıhan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
Climate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies investigate whether households send a migrant after...
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Southern engines of global growth
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. (contributor);  … - 2010
The volume explores how the southern engines, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. It looks at their development experiences, and examines how these could provide useful lessons to the developing world
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Resurgent Asia : diversity in development
Nayyar, Deepak - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019
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Asian transformations : an inquiry into the development of nations
Nayyar, Deepak (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019 - First edition
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Resurgent Asia : diversity in development
Nayyar, Deepak - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019
Over the last fifty years Asia has transformed beyond recognition. 'Resurgent Asia' provides an analytical narrative of … Asia's incredible development situated in the wider context of historical, political, and social factors. …
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Achieving development success : strategies and lessons from the developing world
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi (contributor) - 2013 - 1st ed.
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Asian transformations : an inquiry into the development of nations
Nayyar, Deepak (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019 - First edition
reflecting on the future prospects in Asia over the next twenty-five years. Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama …: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development prospects in Asia. The fifty … years since then have witnessed a remarkable social and economic transformation in Asia – even if it has been uneven across …
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Social mobility in developing countries : concepts, methods, and determinants
Iversen, Vegard (ed.); Krishna, Anirudh (ed.);  … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, but there is broad agreement that people should have roughly equal chances of success regardless of their economic status at birth. Concerns about...
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Economic transformation and income distribution in China over three decades
Cai, Meng; Gustafsson, Björn; Knight, John B. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023
It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with Sub Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural...
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Growth, employment, and poverty in Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Its analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via...
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