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Trade Policies and Development: Some New Issues
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
The 1980s have seen the beginnings of a change of heart among developing country policymakers, as the import-substitution consensus of the previous decade has all but evaporated. It is paradoxical that the 1980s should have become the decade of trade liberalization in LDCs, since this has also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281315
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083828
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Telecommunications Infrastructure And Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach
Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Waverman, Leonard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper investigates how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has received considerable attention in the popular press concerning the creation of the 'information superhighway' and its potential impacts on the economy. We use evidence from 21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123589
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R&D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791837
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Inequality and Growth
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …
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Tax And Education Policy In A Heterogeneous Agent Economy: What Levels Of Redistribution Maximize Growth And Efficiency?
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124288
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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages
Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public … goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the genealogical relationship between the entire set of 6,912 world languages, to …, originating thousands of years ago, lead to measures of diversity that are better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566319
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
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Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
Li, Bozhong; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The debate about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe has taken a new turn with the publication of Kenneth Pomeranz’ book on ‘The Great Divergence’, in which he maintains that before the Industrial Revolution the most advanced parts of China (in particular the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677242