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Hoeffler, Anke; Justino, Patricia - 2023

Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their development challenges. In this paper, we explore which...

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Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland : Economic Perspectives

Kennedy, Liam - 2015

Irelandś political and constitutional dilemma is that two competing nationalisms emerged in the nineteenth century on the one small island. One was Irish nationalism which harked back to an ancient Gaelic civilization and was infused with Catholic culture and sometimes Anglophobic sentiment....

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Foreign Aid, Terrorism and Growth : Conditional Evidence from Quantile Regression

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...

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Financial globalisation uncertainty/instability is good for financial development

Asongu, Simplice A.; Koomson, Isaac; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015

documented issue of surplus liquidity in African financial institutions. Moreover, the sceptical view in the financial …

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Culture, diffusion, and economic development

Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of Piketty. Abandoning the former's view that inequality...

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Persistence of fortune : accounting for population movements, there was no post-columbian reversal

Chanda, Areendam; Cook, C. Justin; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

We revisit the idea that colonized countries that were more (less) economically advanced in 1500 became poorer (richer, respectively) by the late 20th century. Using data on place of origin of today's country populations and the urbanization and population density measures used by Acemoglu et...

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The Quality of Institutions and Quality of Development

Liu, Michelle Yan - 2015

The positive influences of institutions to economic growth, commonly measured by GDP per capita, have been intensively … quality of institutions and the quality of economic development. The good quality economic development is defined as an … indicators of the institutions quality. The Fixed Effected Regression model is employed and the regressions results are tested by …

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Is the World Progressing? A General Synthesis of Development Issues in the Current World

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2014

Progress is favoured by people, companies and countries. The study attempts to define progress, as the process of developing or improving. The study explore the dimensions of progress, the benefits and the causes, the pioneers and laggards in progress, and initiators of progress. Role of...

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Developing Social Entrepreneurship in the EU : A Cross-Country Analysis

Terziev, Venelin - 2020

The development of the European social model rests on the concept of social entrepreneurship. The concept has a significant contribution to the development of the European social economy. Social entrepreneurship has a remarkable potential, through its innovative solutions, to play an...

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