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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?

Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. Finally, the various …

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Melancholy Hues : The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Naudé, Wim - 2023

kind of economy, which could be as qualitatively different from the current global economy as the industrial world differed … from the hunter-gatherer world …

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Rapid Economic Growth But Rising Poverty Segregation : Will Vietnam Meet the Sdgs for Equitable Development?

Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do Minh; Cuong Viet … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...

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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

Bloom, David E. - 2015

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...

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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2021

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth

Campos, Nauro - 2010

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …

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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe : A Panel Analysis

Wagner, Alexander F. - 2006

We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy/CO2 tax, where...

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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment

Borck, Rainald - 2015

This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...

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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Tausch, Arno - 2011

world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …

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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19 : Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well- being of markets, in which …

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