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What can be learned about the economies of China and India from purchasing power comparisons?

Heston, Alan W. - 2008

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …

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Impact of capital account openness, trade balances and exchange rates on economic growth : the evidence from India (1920-2013)

Ramakrishna, G.; Madhavankutty, G.; Lalitha, P. - In: The Asian economic review : journal of the Indian … 56 (2014) 3, pp. 173-190

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Costa Rica's perspective on total official support for sustainable development (TOSSD)

Berbegal-Ibáñez, Marisa; Casado-Asensio, Juan; … - 2019

This Working Paper summarises the main findings and recommendations of the pilot study carried out in Costa Rica as part of the development of the total official support for sustainable development (TOSSD) measurement framework. The Paper includes first approximations of TOSSD flows to Costa...

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Adapting of Economic Development to Climate Change

Zajmi, Sandra - In: Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People 1 (2012) 2, pp. 43-56

Climate change is the most complex challenge that humankind has had to face in recent times. With each successive generation, redressing the imbalance will be more difficult. Diverse and complex requirements of maintaining life on Earth, collectively called the environment, can be caused both by...

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Adapting of Economic Development to Climate Change

Zajmi, Sandra - In: Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People 1 (2012) 2, pp. 47-60

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Market Changes, Business Cycles and Fluctuations in Electricity Prices - EU Evidence from Germany and Slovenia

Krizanic, HFrance; Oplotnik, Zan Jan - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 3 (2013) 2, pp. 118-126

This article deals with interesting oscillation pattern in electricity prices during the period of EU electric power supply liberalization process, its transition from infrastructure to market activity and during last economic crisis, when at first prices declined significantly, to be raised...

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The Dollar and Development

Sabot, Richard - 2007

Dick Sabot, an active member of CGD's founding Board of Directors, was finishing this paper when he died suddenly on July 6 of 2005. The paper highlights the risks to developing countries posed by the growing U.S. external deficit and describes three possible scenarios. In the first, the US...

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FDI, Mode of Entry and Corporate Governance

Talamo, Giuseppina - 2015

One of the most outstanding features of the trend toward globalization has been the increased importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows around the world. This study estimates the determinant of FDI flows using the gravity equation, controlling for the importance of both the traditional...

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Elites, Institutional Change, Institutional Persistence and Economic Development : Lessons for Africa

Adeolu, Adewole Musiliu - 2016

In the essay, we show how the preference of political elites for special status and power translates to an institutional structure that not only maximizes their relative share of social wealth through predation but ensure they keep as wide as possible the gap between actual development and...

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Chapter 21. A Unified Theory of the Evolution of International Income Levels

Parente, Stephen L.; Prescott, Edward C. - 2005

This chapter develops a theory of the evolution of international income levels. In particular, it augments the Hansen–Prescott theory of economic development with the Parente–Prescott theory of relative efficiencies and shows that the unified theory accounts for the evolution of...

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