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Pre-industrial and post-war economic development : is there a link?

Burkett, John P.; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis G. - 1997

-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as … have achieved more rapid post-War growth, due to more favorable pre-conditions. A cross-country data analysis supports this …

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …

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Economic implications of business dynamics for KE-associated economic growth and inclusive development in African countries

Asongu, Simplice A.; Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S.; … - 2014

economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to the 'inclusive development' of 53 African countries during the 1996 … doing business as expressed in the state of KE, and through it to the inclusive development via the economic growth of those … inclusive development. In fact, growth of this kind has stronger effects on inclusive development and by implication on poverty …

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China's growth miracle in the context of Asian transformation

Lin, Justin Yifu - 2018

continue its dynamic growth in the coming decades? What lessons can we draw from China's development experiences in view of … was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a …

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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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The political economy of rural property rights and the persistence of the dual economy

Fergusson, Leopoldo - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 167-181

Rural areas often have more than one regime of property rights and production. Large, private-property farms owned by powerful landowners coexist with subsistence peasants who farm small plots with limited property rights. At the same time, there is broad consensus that individual,...

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Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development

Olsson, Ola; Hibbs Jr., Douglas A. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2000

years of humankind’s economic development. In this paper we present theory and evidence showing that exogenous geography and … countries indicates that the effects of geographic and biogeographic endowments on contemporary levels of economic development …

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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and …, development is faster in a democratic system. We also endogenize the trade regime and demonstrate that, in political equilibrium …

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