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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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Chapter 4. MAMS A Computable General Equilibrium Model for Developing Country Strategy Analysis
Lofgren, Hans; Cicowiez, Martin; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 159-276). 2013
This chapter presents MAMS (Maquette for MDG Simulations), a recursive-dynamic CGE model developed at the World Bank for analysis of medium- to long-run country strategies for low- and middle-income countries, including strategies aimed at improving MDG (Millennium Development Goals) outcomes....
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Chapter 13 Culture and Economic Development
Streeten, Paul - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 399-412). 2006
This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has...
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Do natural resources help or hinder development? : resource abundance, dependence, and the role of institutions
Lashitew, Addisu A.; Werker, Eric - In: Resource and energy economics 61 (2020), pp. 1-21
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The resource curse: how can oil shape MENA countries' economic development?
Clootens, Nicolas; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben - In: Economic development in the MENA region : new perspectives, (pp. 119-137). 2021
This chapter discusses whether the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries are prone to be cursed or blessed by their natural resources endowments. It thus reviews the literature on the resource curse theory. The existence of a resource curse is discussed and arguments against advocates...
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The resource curse hypothesis : dynamic heterogeneous approach
Kim, Dong-Hyeon; Lin, Shu-Chin - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 54 (2018) 10/11/12, pp. 2698-2717
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Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture : the interaction between technology, progress and economic growth
Brown, Terrence E. (contributor); Ulijn, J. M. (contributor) - 2004
1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth … (HKSAR) : an exploratory study of organization-specific critical success factors -- 3. Knowledge management, institutions and … of hope? -- 7. Entrepreneurship and the design process : the paradox of innovation in a routine design process -- 8 …
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Host-country financial development and multinational activity
Bilir, L. Kamran; Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina - In: European economic review : EER 115 (2019), pp. 192-220
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The role of the level of development, geographical factors, and culture for the efficacy of economic freedom
Zielenkiewicz, Małgorzata - In: Equilibrium : quarterly journal of economics and … 10 (2015) 4, pp. 85-98
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To what extent is the institutional environment responsible for worldwide differences in economic development
Próchniak, Mariusz - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 17-38
economic development. To answer this question, a new concept of the institutions-augmented Solow model is constructed. The … institutions-augmented Solow model fits the empirical data very well. It turns out that differences in physical capital, human … differences in economic development among the countries of the world. According to the institutions-augmented Solow model, the …
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