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We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development … a ect development. Furthermore, the analysis of data from the Afrobarometer shows that the persistence of informal … partitioned group a ects development …
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lives, hindering development. This article presents the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE), a model that emphasizes … sustainable human development. FrEE is theoretically based in Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach. Explaining the synergy between … the field of human development.</p> …
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Development, social justice and the limits of public policy -- Why has …, private enterprise and development -- Democracy and development : diagnosing poor governance -- An agenda for Pakistan …
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Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged...
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development and ignores the underlying social, political and economic changes taking place in the state. It ignores the decline in …. It uses bank credit and its role in UP’s economic development as a tool to explore the changes and structural and …, development, inequality, globalisation, urbanisation, and empowerment. The study further explores the relationship between bank …
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development. Based on the philosophy of mind and consciousness, this framework suggests a practical approach supported by recent … development field, departing from dualistic philosophy and the philosophy of language and embracing a new framework of … "development as consciousness" with clear and practical implications. Eventually, based on the introduced epistemology, a logic for …
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Smoking bans have been widely implemented, despite mixed evidence on their effectiveness in reducing firsthand smoking. This paper provides novel insights into the dynamic impacts of smoking bans in the context of a large developing country, Brazil, that had more than 18.6 million regular...
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of work: ungendered accounts of capitalist development and theories on gendered oppression and inequality. Decentring … between Gender, International Development, Political Economy, and Sociology and its main readership will be found in, but not …
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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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Recent evidence from citation analysis [Mitra, S., Palmer, M, Vuon, V. (2020). Development and interdisciplinarity: A … citation analysis. World Development, 135, 105076; hereafter MPV] shows that development as a field of study hardly interacts … tend to publish more in development studies journals. In this paper, I apply an alternative approach in identifying the …
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