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Urbanization and (In)Formalization
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
, beyond the "tipping point" where half the world's population is now urban. However, formalization has slowed down …
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Development Strategies : Integrating Governance and Growth
Levy, Brian D. - 2017
A frontier challenge for development strategy is to move beyond prescribing optimal economic policies, and instead -- taking a broad view of the interactions between economic, political and social constraints and dynamics -- to identify entry points capable of breaking a low-growth logjam, and...
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How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries?
Knack, Stephen F. - 2020
This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of … developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than $30 billion to its client countries. It also spends … countries has made it difficult for policymakers and scholars to understand which World Bank instruments are most useful for …
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A Cluster-Based Industrial Development Policy for Low-Income Countries
Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2017
The need to construct an effective strategy for industrial development in low-income countries has been largely ignored by development economists because industrial policies have failed in many developing countries. This does not imply, however, that industrial development cannot be promoted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975926
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Culture, Politics, and Development
Woolcock, Michael - 2017
understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973069
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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance
Ahmed, Habib - 2017
Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971752
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Sustainable Development Goals Diagnostics : An Application of Network Theory and Complexity Measures to Set Country Priorities
El-Maghrabi, M. H. - 2018
The United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are comprehensive and holistic in nature, as they includes 17 goals and 169 targets covering economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development. In this context, policy makers face the challenge of translating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912347
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Social Inclusion in Macro-Level Diagnostics : Reflecting on the World Bank Group's Early Systematic Country Diagnostics
Bordia Das, Maitreyi - 2019
-level assessments conducted by the World Bank Group, ahead of the preparation of its Country Partnership Frameworks. In addition to this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903111
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The Economics of Sustainability : Causes and Consequences of Energy Market Transformation
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
The paper deals with the economics of sustainability associated with the transformation of energy markets. It emphasizes the interrelations between technical changes and energy markets and how in turn the resulting transformations alter the sustainability of economic systems that are dependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869976
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Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge
Glachant, Matthieu - 2017
Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of...
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