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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa

Addison, Tony - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district...

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Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?

Addison, Tony - 2017

This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. The analysis compares the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare for mineral-rich districts, pre- and post-accession, to the...

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Demographic Change and Development : A Global Typology

Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017

Demographic change can be a positive contributor to development at any stage of demographic transition. This paper revisits the literature on the determinants and economic impacts of demographic change, and presents a new global typology that classifies countries into four categories based on...

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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth

Loayza, Norman - 2017

"Informality" is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries--in a typical developing economy, the informal sector produces about 35 percent of gross...

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From Commodity Discovery to Production

Khan, Tehmina S. - 2017

in commodity prices in recent years is affecting resource investment in these countries, and may delay the development of … recent discoveries into production. This study investigates lead times from discovery to production for a unique data set of … analysis. The results suggest an important role for copper prices; for instance, an upswing at the time of discovery can hasten …

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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty

Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2017

Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...

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Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires : Evidence from an Experiment

Cirera, X. - 2017

Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing...

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Creative Trade for Human Development

Kabanda, Patrick - 2017

In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa

Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017

reforms increase unskilled wages faster than the rewards of other factors of production, as the reforms tend to favor …

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Higher Losses and Slower Development in the Absence of Disaster Risk Management Investments

Hallegatte, S. - 2017

Global economic losses from natural disasters continue to increase. Yet, investments in disaster risk management are not universal, as they are traditionally seen as in competition with other development and economic priorities. The multitude of benefits from disaster risk management investments...

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