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Can Norway be a role model for natural resource abundant countries?

Cappelen, Ådne; Mjøset, Lars - 2009

During the 1950-70s Norway had relatively low GDP per capita compared to the OECD average and even more so compared to Denmark and Sweden. During the 1970s there was a significant catch-up in incomes and from the early 1990s a "take-off" in relative income. Norway is currently ranked among the...

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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

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Growth oriented macroeconomic policies for small islands economies : lessons from Singapore

Chowdhury, Anis (contributor) - 2008

Most small island economies or "microstates" have distinctly different characteristics from larger developing economies. They are more open and vulnerable to external and environmental shocks, resulting in high output volatility. Most of them also suffer from locational disadvantages. Although a...

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Vulnerability to hunger : improving food crisis responses in fragile states

Andrews, Colin (contributor); Flores, Margarita (contributor) - 2008

The paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognizing the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could be improved to help decisionmakers better...

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Development path of China and India and the challenges for their sustainable growth

Li, Yuefen (contributor); Zhang, Bin (contributor) - 2008

The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity to make full use of their absolute advantage low cost yet educated labour to integrate into the world economy within a comparatively shorter period of time than some earlier...

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Entrepreneurship and reforms in developing countries

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2009

We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform Arellano-Bond GMM estimations on annual data (over the period 1990-2002) from a large group of developing countries and focus in particular on the interplay between policy and...

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Source of finance, growth and firm size : evidence from China

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - 2009

Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the latter. Generally, it finds...

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Tunisia's development experience : a success story?

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2009

Tunisia's recent growth and development performance relative to countries in its region, and relative to countries at similar levels of development in other parts of the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, have been notable. An analysis of Tunisia's path to development reveals that the...

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Vulnerability, poverty and coping in Zimbabwe

Bird, Kate (contributor); Prowse, Martin (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

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Differences in food insecurity between girls and boys : evidence from Zimbabwe

Gundersen, Craig (contributor); Kuku, Yemisi (contributor); … - 2007

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