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POVERTY, POPULATION, DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Chilosi, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The object of the paper is to place the present issues of world poverty, development, demographic change into proper …

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The African tragedy: the effect of democracy on economic growth

Khodaverdian, Saeed - In: Empirical Economics 62 (2021) 3, pp. 1147-1175

explain the former by changes in the size of the population and the latter by changes in the age structure of the population …

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The effects of mental health interventions on labor market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries

Lund, Crick; Orkin, Kate; Witte, Marc; Walker, John; … - 2024

Mental health conditions are prevalent but rarely treated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Little is known about how these conditions affect economic participation. This paper shows that treating mental health conditions substantially improves recipients' capacity to work in these...

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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to economic development …

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Two views on institutions and development: The grand transition vs. the primacy of institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …

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Untangling the quality of governance from the level of income: Are Sub-Saharan African countries governed well?

Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - 2005

institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic …

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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altındağ, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010

democracy. The results suggest that periods of high unemployment and joblessness would hinder the development of democracy. …

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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration

Ahsan, Quamrul - 2005

The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...

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Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment

Cooray, Arusha; Gaddis, Isis; Wacker, Konstantin M. - 2012

We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...

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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

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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