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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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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And if so, why? And what is next?
Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Data on global trade as well as capital and labor flows indicate a slowdown, but not reversal, of globalization post the 2008-09 financial crisis. Yet profound changes in the policy environment and public sentiment in the largest economies over the past five years suggest the beginning of a new...
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Remarks at the International Conference on Democracy, Market Economy, and Development
Wolfensohn, James D. - 1999
partnership between governments, multilaterals, such as the Bank, and the bilateral institutions, the private sector, and civil …
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RECONSIDERING EXPECTATIONS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AFTER
Fogel, Robert W. - 2005
At the close of World War II, there were wide-ranging debates about the future of economic developments. Historical experience has since shown that these forecasts were uniformly too pessimistic. Expectations for the American economy focused on the likelihood of secular stagnation; this topic...
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Trade, Development and Political Economy : Essays in Honour of Anne O. Krueger
Lal, Deepak (ed.); Snape, Richard H. (ed.) - 2001
Trade, Development and Political Economy takes fundamental issues in trade and development policy and subjects them to well-based economic analysis in a form that is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Distinguished contributors address some of the following questions: Are critics of...
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Culture, Growth and Economic Policy
Petrakis, Panagiotis E. - 2014
Costs and Economic Institutions -- The Effects of Culture, Transactions and Institutions on Opportunity Entrepreneurship … Background and Economic System -- The Effect of Cultural Background on Incentives, Growth and Distribution and Vice Versa … analysis of the development of cultural background itself. Cultural background is embodied in political institutions, in …
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2017
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László; Lloyd, Ainsley - 2017
data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI … understanding of entrepreneurship and a more precise means to measure it. In addition to yearly data and comparison, this 2017 … entrepreneurship: the GEDI and the Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) measure. Whereas developed countries will be …
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016
Acs, Zoltan; Szerb, László; Autio, Erkko - 2017
This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and … aspirations at both the individual- and country-level. Featuring data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index … provides a tool to help policymakers and governments harness the power of entrepreneurship to address some of the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397482
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2014
Acs, Zoltán J. - 2015
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 National Systems of Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 3 Institutions, Incentives, and … Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index -- Chapter 5 Methodology and Data Description …This volume captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019100
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 1995
One of the surprising features of modern economic growth is that economies with abundant natural resources have tended to grow less rapidly than natural-resource-scarce economies. In this paper we show that economies with a high ratio of natural resource exports to GDP in 1971 (the base year)...
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