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Does Gender Inequality Hinder Development and Economic Growth? Evidence and Policy Implications

Bandiera, Oriana; Natraj, Ashwini - 2013

Does the existing evidence support policies that foster growth by reducing gender inequality? The authors argue that the evidence based on differences across countries is of limited use for policy design because it does not identify the causal link from inequality to growth. This, however does...

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Structural Change, Dualism and Economic Development : The Role of the Vulnerable Poor on Marginal Lands

Barbier, Edward B. - 2013

natural resources use in the rural economy matter in the overall dynamics of structural change. The concentration of the rural … poor on marginal lands is essentially a barometer of economy-wide development. As long as there are abundant marginal lands … in the economy. Moreover, the economy is vulnerable to the "Dutch disease" effects of a booming primary products sector …

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Financial Development, Growth, and Poverty : How Close are the Links?

Patrick Honohan - 2013

The causal link between finance and growth is one of the most striking empirical macroeconomic relationships uncovered in the past decade. As this branch of the literature matures, the focus shifts from growth to other aspects of economic prosperity, and from financial depth to multidimensional...

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Toward a Microeconomics of Growth

Burgess, Robin; Venables, Anthony J. - 2013

What drives growth at the microeconomic level? The authors divide the factors that determine a location's growth performance into two groups, "1st advantage" and "2nd advantage." The term 1st advantage refers to the conditions that provide the environment in which new activities can be...

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Gender Equality and Economic Development : The Role for Information and Communication Technologies

Chen, Derek H. C. - 2013

The author focuses on the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in improving gender equality, so as to enhance long-term economic growth. Employing OLS and IV panel regressions with country fixed-effects, he shows that increases in the level of ICT infrastructure...

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Financial Development, Financial Fragility, and Growth

Loayza, Norman; Ranci??re, Romain - 2013

The authors study the apparent contradiction between two strands of the literature on the effects of financial intermediation on economic activity. On the one hand, the empirical growth literature finds a positive effect of financial depth as measured by, for instance, private domestic credit...

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Economic Development As Opportunity Equalization

Roemer, John E. - 2013

Economic development should be conceived of as the degree to which an economy has implemented an efficient and just …

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications

Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013

importance of the informal economy in female economic activity. The first axis the paper studies is whether reducing educational …. Women's economic activities in the informal economy largely represent the commercialization of domestic skills and … dependence on social networks. The shunting of female production to the informal sector in the male-dominated colonial economy is …

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Middle-Income Traps : A Conceptual and Empirical Survey

Im, Fernando Gabriel; Rosenblatt, David - 2013

In recent years, the term "middle-income trap" has entered common parlance in the development policy community. The term itself often has not been precisely defined in the incipient literature. This paper discusses in more detail definitional issues on the so-called middle-income trap. The paper...

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Removing Impediments to Sustainable Economic Development : The Case of Corruption

L??pez Claros, Augusto - 2014

the economy's central agent of resource allocation. What is the impact of corruption on public finances and on the …

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