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New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Middle Income Countries : Brokering Collective Action for Global Sustainable Development

Klingebiel, Stephan - 2016

Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ventured an intriguing look into the future of development. In particular, the … conference highlighted the role of networks in overcoming challenges for sustainable development and reshaping international … Sustainable Development: networks and partnerships, on the one hand, and cooperation with MICs, on the other. As modes of …

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Institutions and FDI : evidence from developed and developing countries

Sabir, Samina; Rafique, Anum; Abbas, Kamran - In: Financial innovation : FIN 5 (2019) 8, pp. 1-20

This study investigates the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows using panel data for low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income countries for the sample period of 1996-2016 using the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The empirical results...

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The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development : lessons for the post-2015 development agenda

Priyadarshi, Shishir; Biswas, Trineesh - 2014 - Manuscript date: 18 July 2014

This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and …

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Concentration of resources and economic growth

Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25

economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the … impact of both trends on long-run economic growth is studied, and results are discussed in light of relevant policy debate. …

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Institutions and economic performance : endogeneity and parameter heterogeneity

Eicher, Theo S.; Leukert, Andreas - 2006 - Draft 3.5, September 29 2005

The hallmark of the recent development and growth literature is a quest to identify institutions that explain a …

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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

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Capital account policies, IMF programs and growth in developing regions

Bicaba, Zorobabel; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015

policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …

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Assessing foreign aid's long-run contribution to growth in development

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2013

This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past forty years stimulated growth, promoted structural …

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The brain drain from developing countries : the brain drain produces many more losers than winners in developing countries

Docquier, Frédéric - 2014

The proportion of foreign-born people in rich countries has tripled since 1960, and the emigration of high-skilled people from poor countries has accelerated. Many countries intensify their efforts to attract and retain foreign students, which increases the risk of brain drain in the sending...

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The Future of the ODA Concept : The Political Dimensions of a Seemingly Technical Discussion

Klingebiel, Stephan - 2016

There is a possibility that the development ministers of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development … (OECD) will agree on a new definition of official development assistance (ODA) at the end of 2014. Ongoing discussions on … concept and development of ODA, it is becoming clear that the debate about a suitable new definition covers the entire …

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