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economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
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Despite extensive research, there is still controversy on the effects of income inequality on economic growth. The … different forms of inequality. However, empirical studies have generally not distinguished between these channels, nor have … their analyses included a consideration of the two forms of inequality and their separate effects on growth. In this paper …
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This paper develops a framework which analyzes how a population's culture affects the decisions of rational profit maximizing firms, while simultaneously exploring how the actions of these firms in turn affect the population's culture.By endogenizing culture as well as the more usual economic...
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light on the dynamic causality relationship and impact channel between economic growth and inequality - using vector error … inequality, renewed attention should be paid to curbing inequality. Those economies experiencing inclusive growth can further … promote growth with less risk of sacrificing equity. This also provides useful implications for development interventions …
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The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...
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details of the various phases of development and the role thatgovernment and government monopoly has played in different …
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This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …
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In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393216
neglected issues of development and structural transformation. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to this gap … developing country contexts with extre me income inequality and correspondingly polarized patterns of consumption. This argument … is supported by a review of, amongst other, Kalecki's writing on development and a two-sector model building on Razmi et …
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