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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

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The Evolution of Conflict and Effectiveness of Aid

Dimico, Arcangelo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The effect of aid on civil war has been widely debated. In this paper we introduce a new framework to evaluate the effectiveness of aid on conflict. Using proxies for the evolution of conflict we show that over the course of the conflict aid significantly affects the escalation and de-escalation...

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Major impacts of microfinance on the poor: snapshots from Bangladesh

Mallick, Iftekhar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Microfinance has, by now, reached a total of over 60% of all poor households of Bangladesh, and 37% of all households (World Bank, 2005). There are, however some controversies relating to the indebtedness for the microfinance receivers and the contribution of microfinance in their socioeconomic...

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Medellín: Una ciudad hacia el sector servicios y los efectos en el empleo

Tamayo, Vélez; Mauricio, Julián - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

ABSTRACT Medellín became the capital city of Antioquia when a change in the production paradigm was established: the change of mining to agricultural and livestock production farm, which allowed the emergence of a fledgling industry in a city that, did not have the features expected to be...

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Global e-commerce and african participation:a critical assessment

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

important process of economic development is learning. Therefore, e-commerce is an important contributor to the learning process …

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

that the best policy responses vary across African countries (depending on their levels of development, endowments …, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … both elusive and expensive. Policy makers should therefore identify and execute strategies that balance development …

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Conflicts and Development: A Case of Naxal Movement affected Warangal District in Andhra Pradesh

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The presented study examines the level and pattern of development in the conflict particularly Naxal afflicted areas …

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Labor share, informal sector and development

Maarek, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper aims to understand the pattern of the labor share of income during the development process. We highlight a U …-shapped relationship between development and the labor share. Our theory emphasizes the interplay between firms'monopsony power and the … workers'outside opportunities in wage setting. In the first stage of development, productivity gains are not compensated by …

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Culture and Economic Growth of Cities; Evidence from Liberia

Gul, Ejaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

towards sustainable development. This was successfully demonstrated in case of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, which … cultural economy is now playing an enhanced role in the sustainable economic development of Liberia. Because of the ongoing …

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Dynamics of Overlapping Clusters: Industrial and Institutional Revolution in the Industrial District of Aachen, 1800‐1860

Reckendrees, Alfred - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The economic transition characterizing the process of European industrialization in the 19th century was concentrated on regions rather than on states. In the first half of the 19th century, the region of Aachen (in the west of Prussia) pioneered on the territory of the German states and...

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