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Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...

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Learning from China's Rise to Escape the Middle-Income Trap : A New Structural Economics Approach to Latin America

Lin, Justin Yifu - 2017

and opportunities for Latin America that come from China's rise, and draws lessons from New Structural Economics and the … to avoid further de-industrialization arising from the competitive pressures of the rise of China, broaden the base for …

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Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data

He, Jie - 2017

In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by … an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with income at the beginning and … and yet environmental pollution also needs to be carefully controlled. This study analyzes the impacts of economic …

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Long-Run Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospects

Herrera Aguilera, Santiago - 2017

Ghana's economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana's...

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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa

Yusuf, Shahid - 2018

With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...

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Liberia : Strategic Policy Options for Medium Term Growth and Development

Dessus, Sébastien - 2017

The objective of this paper is to inform Liberia's medium-term growth and development strategy for 2012-17 and its National Vision: Liberia Rising 2030, both of which are under preparation. The analysis is based on MAMS (Maquette for MDG [Millennium Development Goal]) Simulations, a computable...

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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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Transport Policies and Development

Berg, Claudia - 2018

This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transport policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically assessed, especially those dealing with endogeneity...

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Removing Impediments to Sustainable Economic Development : The Case of Corruption

Lopez-Claros, Augusto - 2017

This paper examines causes and consequences of corruption within the process of economic development. It starts by reviewing some of the factors that, over the past couple of decades, have transformed corruption from a subject on the sidelines of economic research to a central preoccupation of...

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The Ecological Impact of Transportation Infrastructure

Asher, Samuel Edward - 2018

There is a long-standing debate over whether new roads unavoidably lead to environmental damage, especially forest loss, but causal identification has been elusive. Using multiple causal identification strategies, this paper studies the construction of new rural roads to over 100,000 villages...

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