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Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

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Poverty trap and educational shock : evidence from missionary fields

Dimico, Arcangelo - 2014

Low growth equilibria with low investment in human capital generally tend to persist till an external shock affects the economy. In this paper we use data on Christian missions to proxy a long-lasting educational shock in Africa. We estimate the effect of this shock on the quality of children...

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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2008

classes in the development process. We find that the average middle class person is not an entrepreneur in waiting: while he …

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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that negative personal circumstances can foster self-reliance,...

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Digital platforms and development : a survey of the literature

Fu, Xiaolan; Avenyo, Elvis Korku; Ghauri, Pervez N. - In: Innovation and development : RIAD 11 (2021) 2/3, pp. 303-321

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Globalization, Poverty and the Political Left

Mandle, Jay R. - 2008

spread of economic development globally is necessary to achieve that end …

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Chapter 7. Designing Social Protection Programs : Using Theory and Experimentation to Understand How to Help Combat Poverty

Hanna, R.; Karlan, D. - 2017

“Antipoverty” programs come in many varieties, ranging from multifaceted, complex programs to more simple cash transfers. Articulating and understanding the root problem motivating government and nongovernmental organization intervention are critical for choosing among many antipoverty...

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A simple model of inequality, occupational choice, and development

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jiang, Neville Nien-Huei - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...

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Two Africas? : why Africa's "growth miracle" has barely reduced poverty

Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver; Mosley, Paul - 2019

Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole has fallen by about a third, compared to by half or more in other developing regions. While some countries have had little or no success in reducing poverty, many have had...

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My journey through the history of development economics

Thorbecke, Erik - 2018

This paper is essentially autobiographical and describes Erik Thorbecke's journey through the history of development … professional career as a development economist and his research interactions with major contributors to the discipline. The next … African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …

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