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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
of democracy (rather than democracy vs. non-democracy) has important consequences for the adoption of structural polices … opposed to majoritarian) and permanent (as opposed to temporary) democracy appear to produce the most growth …
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Democracy Does Cause Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
We provide evidence that democracy has a significant and robust positive effect on GDP. Our empirical strategy relies … on a dichotomous measure of democracy coded from several sources to reduce measurement error and controls for country … fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which otherwise confound the effect of democracy on economic growth. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458660
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Democratic Capital : The Nexus of Political and Economic Change
Persson, Torsten - 2006
years. Democratic capital -- measured by a nation's historical experience with democracy and by the incidence of democracy … in its neighborhood -- reduces the exit rate from democracy and raises the exit rate from autocracy. In democracies, a …, promoting economic development jointly with the consolidation of democracy …
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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture
Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct a new database with systematic measures of inputs and...
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Asian transformations : an inquiry into the development of nations
Nayyar, Deepak (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019 - First edition
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Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason
Treisman, Daniel - 2011
provide evidence at the levels of individual countries and the world--helps explain why democracy advances in waves followed … to leap to a higher level of democracy when they are eventually overthrown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461526
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Asian transformations : an inquiry into the development of nations
Nayyar, Deepak (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019 - First edition
Including in-depth contributions by eminent economists and social scientists, 'Asian Transformations' examines the phenomenal changes transforming economies in this continent and shifting the balance of economic power in the world, while reflecting on the future prospects in Asia over the next...
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462215
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2007
theory also establishes that after economic integration, the high skill countries see a disproportionate increase in …
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