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Developing countries 48,962 Entwicklungsländer 47,540 Entwicklung 6,757 Economic development 6,749 Welt 5,829 World 5,811 Theorie 5,095 Theory 5,086 Entwicklungshilfe 4,570 Development aid 4,447 Wirtschaftswachstum 4,068 Economic growth 4,030 developing countries 3,736 Auslandsinvestition 2,578 Foreign investment 2,575 Entwicklungspolitik 2,487 Industrialized countries 2,379 Industrieländer 2,377 Armut 2,368 Poverty 2,292 Development policy 2,220 International sovereign debt 1,970 Internationale Staatsschulden 1,970 Poverty reduction 1,935 Armutsbekämpfung 1,920 Globalisierung 1,844 Globalization 1,839 Schwellenländer 1,720 Emerging economies 1,668 Sustainable development 1,606 Handelsliberalisierung 1,582 Trade liberalization 1,581 Nachhaltige Entwicklung 1,558 International economic relations 1,530 Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen 1,529 Multinationales Unternehmen 1,374 Transnational corporation 1,354 International economy 1,279 Internationale Wirtschaft 1,279 Schätzung 1,198
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English 43,163 Undetermined 3,680 German 3,309 French 1,636 Spanish 629 Russian 199 Italian 141 Dutch 72 Polish 71 Portuguese 66 Hungarian 58 Croatian 37 Danish 30 Swedish 26 Czech 22 Norwegian 14 Romanian 11 Arabic 7 Slovak 6 Japanese 5 Bulgarian 4 Multiple languages 4 Turkish 4 Afrikaans 3 Finnish 3 Slovenian 3 Albanian 3 Valencian 2 Serbian 2 Chinese 2 Indonesian 1 Korean 1 Tsonga 1 Ukrainian 1
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Nunnenkamp, Peter 244 Klasen, Stephan 115 Anderson, Kym 94 Collier, Paul 89 Hoekman, Bernard M. 89 Morrissey, Oliver 87 Edwards, Sebastian 86 Stiglitz, Joseph E. 81 Aizenman, Joshua 77 Singh, Ajit 76 Rodrik, Dani 75 Stewart, Frances 74 Montiel, Peter 72 Balassa, Béla A. 70 Dreher, Axel 69 Bird, Graham R. 68 Kanbur, Ravi 66 Ravallion, Martin 65 Sachs, Jeffrey 65 Singer, Hans W. 65 Herzer, Dierk 64 Langhammer, Rolf J. 62 Mosley, Paul 60 Agénor, Pierre-Richard 58 Krueger, Anne O. 56 Martin, Will 54 Guillaumont, Patrick 53 Gupta, Sanjeev 53 Kirkpatrick, Colin H. 53 Lall, Sanjaya 52 Cohen, Daniel 51 Lensink, Robert 51 Reisen, Helmut 51 Tarp, Finn 51 Bird, Richard M. 50 Claessens, Stijn 50 Narula, Rajneesh 50 McGillivray, Mark 49 Bourguignon, François 48 Braun, Joachim von 48
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Weltbank 540 International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations 467 UNCTAD / Secretariat 298 UNCTAD 241 OECD 215 World Bank 215 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 204 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 135 World Institute for Development Economics Research 128 World Bank Group 127 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 118 OECD / Development Centre 109 eSocialSciences 95 UNIDO 90 Internationales Arbeitsamt 89 International Food Policy Research Institute 76 Internationaler Währungsfonds 76 FAO 68 Institute of Social Studies (ISS) 63 Overseas Development Institute 63 Europäische Kommission 62 UNDP 61 Vereinte Nationen / Department of Economic and Social Affairs 60 EcoMod Network 54 Vereinte Nationen / Department of International Economic and Social Affairs 52 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung 49 C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 48 United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) 46 Vereinte Nationen 45 World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University 44 OECD / Development Assistance Committee 42 Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 40 UNESCO 37 Edward Elgar Publishing 36 Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik 35 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit 34 Internationales Arbeitsamt / World Employment Programme 34 Asian Development Bank 32 Economic Growth Center, Economics Department 32 Center za Proučevanje Sodelovanja z Deželami v Razvoju <Ljubljana> 31
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Policy research working paper : WPS 826 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 676 ILO Working Papers 444 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 443 Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 376 IMF working paper 349 Journal of development economics 316 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 240 Journal of international development : the journal of the Development Studies Association 227 The journal of development studies : JDS 199 IMF Working Papers 183 IMF working papers 163 Discussion paper series / IZA 159 Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research 155 Policy research working paper 149 United Nations publication 148 Revue tiers monde 147 World Bank discussion paper 144 The world economy : the leading journal on international economic relations 143 MPRA Paper 134 The World Bank research observer 129 Development policy review 123 Applied economics 122 The World Bank economic review 113 CESifo working papers 112 The journal of developing areas 111 Mondes en développement 108 Journal of economic development 107 CREDIT research paper 106 The European journal of development research : journal of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) 102 Review of development economics 96 Working Papers / eSocialSciences 95 Economic development and cultural change 93 World Bank E-Library Archive 90 The journal of international trade & economic development 88 The Pakistan development review : PDR 85 World Bank staff working papers 85 Discussion paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research 83 Discussion papers / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 82 Canadian journal of development studies 81
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ECONIS (ZBW) 47,816 RePEc 4,290 EconStor 425 USB Cologne (EcoSocSci) 208 BASE 156 USB Cologne (business full texts) 24 Other ZBW resources 21 ArchiDok 6
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Labor market institutions and the effects of financial openness
Du, Qingyuan; Nie, Jun; Wei, Shang-jin - 2020 - Updated February 2020
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : an overview of evidence from social protection policies
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in developing countries in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms for risk-protection,...
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Leapfrogging into the unknown : the future of structural change in the developing world
Schlogl, Lukas - 2020
This paper traces a set of major trends and future scenarios in global structural change. It argues that across multiple domains of change, developing economies are facing novel constellations of lateness and prematurity in technological and economic development. The paper explores these novel...
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Financial literacy and poverty reduction : the case of Indonesia
Askar, Media Wahyudi; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Zhang, Yin-Fang - 2020
Given its role in affecting financial behavior, financial literacy has received considerable attention from researchers and policy makers alike. This paper employs data from a nationally representative survey in Indonesia to investigate the impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a...
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Innovation strategies and productivity growth in developing countries : evidence from Pakistan
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2020
We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of different innovations on labor productivity:...
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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey
Duman, Anil - 2020
We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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Oil price and economic growth of oil-importing countries : a review of international literature
Akinsola, Motunrayo O.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Applied econometrics and international development 20 (2020) 1, pp. 129-151
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Environmental integrity and doing business in Zimbabwe : challenges and engagement of sustainable enterprises
De Gobbi, Maria Sabrina - 2020
Zimbabwe has a wealth of natural resources and is rich in biodiversity. The national Government is trying to achieve private sector led economic growth and the challenge to pursue both economic development and sound environmental management at the same time appears clear. The objective of this...
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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age : a cross-country empirical study
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This paper seeks to gain insights into whether developing countries benefit more from the backwardness advantage for economic growth in the Information Age. The paper examines this concern through three complementary approaches. First, it derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic...
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Remittance concentration and volatility : evidence from 72 developing countries
Hosny, Amr - 2020
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Assessing the post-quantitative easing surge in financial flows to developing and emerging market economies
Fofack, Achille Dargaud; Aker, Ahmet; Rjoub, Husam - In: Journal of applied economics 23 (2020) 1, pp. 89-105
The aim of this paper is to assess the surge in financial flows to developing and emerging market economies induced by the Federal Reserve's experience of quantitative easing. Using both panel causality tests and dynamic panel regression models on a data set covering as much as 78 developing and...
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Reassessment of the fiscal multiplier in developing countries : regime-switching model
Hlaváček, Michal; Ismayilov, Ilgar; Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2020
The existing literature on fiscal policy has mainly employed linear models that found a small fiscal multiplier in developing economies. These findings challenge the importance and effectiveness of fiscal policy for these countries. However, linear models are not capable of distinguishing the...
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Local currency denominated sovereign loans : a portfolio approach to tackle moral hazard and provide insurance
Panizza, Ugo; Taddei, Filippo - 2020
This paper studies how the currency composition of public debt affects debt sustainability in developing countries. We show empirically that the debt-to-GDP ratio tends to grow at a faster rate when countries with a high share of foreign currency debt face a currency depreciation. The paper also...
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Innovation and productivity in developing economies
Morsy, Hanan; Shal, Amira el- - 2020
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Compliance with labor laws in developing countries : non-compliance with labor legislation is widespread and this has critical implications for understanding labor markets in devel...
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2019
Compliance with minimum wage laws and non-wage conditions of employment often depends on labor market specific factors. In developing countries, many workers still earn less than the legal minimum and lack access to mandated non-wage benefits. Enforcement has not kept up with regulation growth...
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Impact of information and communication technology on economic growth : evidence from developing countries
Bahrini, Raéf; Qaffas, Alaa A. - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/21, pp. 1-13
The present study aims to evaluate the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the economic growth of selected developing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region by using a panel Generalized Method of Moment (GMM)...
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Assessment of interest rate and credit transmission channels in a context of banking heterogeneity
Fattoum, Sinda Morsi - 2019
This paper extends the tourist test model proposed by Rochet and Tirole (2011) by incorporating the government in order to take into account informality (understood as tax evasion in cash payments) and the net social cost of cash usage. These two elements are relevant in developing countries,...
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From "MeToo" to Boko Haram : a survey of levels and trends of gender inequality in the world
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
This survey argues that after decades of continuous progress in reducing gender inequality in developing and developed countries, since about 2000, there has been an unexpected stagnation and regress in many dimensions of gender inequality in many parts of the world. This is most visible in...
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Product patents and access to innovative medicines in a post-trips-era
Watal, Jayashree; Dai, Rong - 2019 - Manuscript date: 28 March 2019
This WTO working paper studies availability and affordability of new and innovative pharmaceuticals in a post-TRIPS era. The WTO's TRIPS Agreement (TRIPS) makes it obligatory for WTO members − except least-developed country members (LDCs) - to provide pharmaceutical product patents with a...
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The tax elasticity of formal work in African countries
McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019
A key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time. In need to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a trade-off between decreasing tax rates (making formalizing potentially more attractive) and alternatively raising tax...
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Social protection programs for women in developing countries : how to design social protection programs that poor women can benefit from
Cameron, Lisa Ann - 2019
Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
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FDI, multinationals and structural change in developing countries
Alves, André Gustavo de Miranda Pineli; Narula, Rajneesh; … - 2019
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Gender gaps in labor informality : the motherhood effect
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2019
Recent work has quantified the large negative effects of motherhood on female labor market outcomes in Europe and the US. But these results may not apply to developing countries, where labor markets work differently and informality is widespread. In less developed countries, informal jobs, which...
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in the short run and long run : empirical evidence from developing countries
Trang Thi-Huyen Dinh; Duc Hong Vo; Anh The Vo; Thang … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 4/176, pp. 1-11
A contribution of foreign direct investment to economic growth is possibly one of the widely examined topics in academic research in the last five decades. However, few studies have examined both the short run and long run impacts of this effect concurrently for developing and emerging markets,...
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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...
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Corporate taxation, tax administration and financial development
Mardan, Mohammed - 2019
This paper analyzes corporate tax-related policies and the difference between them in developed and developing countries. I show that the relationship between financial development and corporate income tax rates as well as the tax administrations' effectiveness follows a U-shaped pattern, a...
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...
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Educational mobility in developing countries
Torche, Florencia - 2019
This paper reviews the small but growing literature on intergenerational educational mobility in the developing world. Education is a critical determinant of economic well-being, and it predicts a range of non-pecuniary outcomes such as marriage, fertility, health, crime, and political...
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Globalisation and governance : thresholds for the impacts of the main determinants of capital inflows?
Özmen, Erdal; Taşdemir, Fatma - 2019
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Does investment replace aid as countries become more developed?
Helga Kristjánsdóttir - In: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 5 (2019) 2, pp. 256-261
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019
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Welfare impact of globalization in developing countries : examining the mediating role of human capital
Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi; Ogunniyi, Adebayo Isaiah; … - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/84, pp. 1-24
Despite remarkable progress in the fight against poverty during the past few decades, the proportion of the poor living in developing countries is still on the high side. Many countries have promoted integration as an important development strategy; however, its impact on welfare of the poor is...
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Commodity revenues, agricultural sector and the magnitude of deindustrialization : a novel multisector perspective
Sadik-Zada, Elkhan; Loewenstein, Wilhelm; Hasanli, Yadulla - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/113, pp. 1-15
This study puts forward a model of a multisector economy and embeds it in a novel theoretical framework to address the relationship between commodity revenues and manufacturing output with a special focus on the role of the agricultural sector. The three-sector model lays the groundwork for...
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital statistics records from a large developing country,...
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Innovation efforts in developing countries : the case of Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises
Son Thi Kim Le - 2019
The identification of potential innovation efforts plays an important role in evaluating the innovation process. The innovation efforts of firms in developing countries might be different to those of Western enterprises. This paper evaluates innovation processes in developing countries,...
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Improving performance of VAT system in developing EU countries : estimating the determinants of the ratio c-efficiency in the period 1997-2017
Đorđević, Marina; Đurović Todorović, Jadranka; … - In: Facta Universitatis / Series economics and organization … 16 (2019) 3, pp. 239-254
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Government size and happiness inequality : a threshold panel approach
Zare, Ebrahim; Ebrahimi, Mehrzad; Aminifard, Abbas; … - In: Iranian journal of economic studies : IJES 8 (2019) 2, pp. 421-439
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The gender gap in education investment and the demographic transition in developing countries : theory and evidence
Dao, Nguyen Thang; Dávila, Julio; Greulich, Angela - 2019
We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain, for 20th century developing countries: (i) the demographic transition, (ii) the improvement in gender equality in education, and (iii) the transition to sustained growth. The...
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A behavioural perspective on the drivers of migration : studying economic and social preferences using the Gallup World Poll
Klöble, Katrin - 2021
This paper addresses the self-selection of potential migrants. In particular, the study examines whether risk and time preferences explain a significant proportion in the movement heterogeneity of individuals. It is further intended to shed light on the role of social preferences (trust,...
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The impact of patient capital on job quality, investments and firm performance : cross-country evidence on long-term finance
Sommer, Christoph - 2021
Despite its importance for development, long-term finance is particularly scarce in countries with lower income levels. This not only results in unrealised growth and employment creation at the national level and at the level of individual firms, but also undermines a broader shift towards...
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Motherhood and flexible jobs : evidence from Latin American countries
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...
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The extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) contribute to the growth of host economies : evidence from Tanzania
Masanja, Cosmas R. - In: Business management review : journal of the University … 21 (2018) 1, pp. 1-22
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The impact of e-wallet on informal farm entrepreneurship development in rural Nigeria
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2018
Transforming agriculture from a largely subsistence enterprise to a profitable commercial venture is both a prerequisite and a driving force for accelerated development and sustainable growth in su b - Saharan Africa. The objective of this investigation is to assess the impact of the Federal...
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Social funding of green financing : an application of distributed ledger technologies
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Schloesser, Tim; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2018
To achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) as well as the Paris Agreement major investments in renewable energy (RE) production are necessary worldwide. In particular, decentralized, small-scale projects offer copious potential to create energy access as well as to contribute to an...
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Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries? : whether raising minimum wages reduces - or increases - poverty depends on the characteristics of the labo...
Gindling, Thomas - 2018 - Version 2
Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market characteristics. Minimum wages target formal sector workers - a minority in most developing countries - many of whom do not live in poor households. Whether raising minimum wages...
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Mothers' non-farm entrepreneurship and child secondary education in rural Ghana
Janssens, Charlotte; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Maertens, Miet - 2018
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Female labor force participation in developing countries : improving employment outcomes for women takes more than raising labor market participation : good jobs are important too
Verick, Sher Singh - 2018 - version 2
The relationship between female labor force participation and economic development is far more complex than often portrayed in both the academic literature and policy debates. Due to various economic and social factors, such as the pattern of growth, education attainment, and social norms,...
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Birth order effects and educational achievement in the developing world
Schwefer, Maximilian - 2018
Studies on the role of birth order in educational achievement in developing countries have yielded contradictory findings. This study uses unique and novel data on 4,362 siblings living in alternative care families in 54 countries. Results suggest negative birth order effects among biological...
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