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Transforming conflict with an economic dividend: The Sri Lankan experience

Kelegama, Saman - 2005

Peace can generate an economic dividend, which can be further increased by appropriate economic reform. This dividend can in turn be used to raise popular support for conflict resolution measures along the road to achieving a final political settlement, a strategy that characterizes the recent...

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Vietnam following in China's footsteps: The third wave of emerging Asian economies

Chaponnière, Jean-Raphael; Cling, Jean-Pierre; Zhou, Bin - 2008

Vietnam has been following China's path closely and very successfully for the last two decades, since the adoption of … the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper addresses this question with regard to Vietnam, who joined the WTO at the … beginning of 2007: we study Vietnam's potential for sustainable growth and international integration. We start by briefly …

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Vietnam as a role model for development

Thoburn, John - 2009

Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid …-owned enterprises while encouraging growth of the private sector. Following an East Asian model, Vietnam has opened its domestic market …

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Trade liberalization and spatial inequality: A methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective

Tarp Jensen, Henning; Tarp, Finn - 2004

matrix for Vietnam, mapping on a one-to-one basis to each other. Distinct differences in poverty assessments emerge when the … ; Vietnam …

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Globalization, production and poverty

Jenkins, Rhys - 2005

carried out in four countries—Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam—which have all become more integrated with the … ; Bangladesh ; Kenya ; South Africa ; Vietnam ; textiles ; garments ; horticulture …

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Identification of regional fundamental economic structure (FES) of India: An input-output and field of influence approach

Thakur, Sudhir K. - 2008

This study provides an understanding of the Indian regional economy utilizing the fundamental economic structure (FES) approach. The FES construct implies that selected characteristics of an economy will vary predictably with region size, as measured by net state domestic product, population,...

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Absorptive capacity and achieving the MDGs

Bourguignon, François; Sundberg, Mark - 2006

The ability of low-income countries to productively absorb large amounts of external assistance is a central issue for efforts to scale-up aid. This paper examines absorptive capacity in the context of MDG-based development programmes in low-income countries. It first defines absorptive...

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Violence in peace: Understanding increased violence in early post-conflict transitions and its implications for development

Byrom Hartwell, Marcia - 2006

A key issue for development in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been an escalation of violence during post-conflict transitions. A long-term goal for international donor involvement is to assist in building legitimate and effective political, economic, and legal...

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Rushing in where angels fear to tread?: The early internationalization of indigenous Chinese firms

Naudé, Wim - 2009

In this paper I empirically investigate the early international entrepreneurship of indigenous Chinese firms using data on 3,948 firms surveyed by the World Bank in 2002-03. I find important differences in the extent and motivation of early internationalization between indigenous and...

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How can Korea be a role model for catch-up development? A 'capability-based view'

Lee, Keun - 2009

There is some scepticism about Korea as role model of development as the Korean model involved a considerable degree of state activism, unacceptable in today's global environment. This paper propose a capability-based view of the country's catch-up development, arguing that the real lesson from...

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