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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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Julian Simon has stated, in many of his recent publications, that population growth, although reducing income per capita in the short run through capital dilution, increases the rate of growth of that same income per capita in the long run (steady state) through technical progress brought about...
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We study labor productivity in agriculture within a two-region, two factor and two commodity economy. Increases in productivity can lead to higher or to lower agricultural prices, depending on the internal structure of the economy. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for either outcome;...
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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This article outlines work in progress on a study of technological choice in the context of North-South development …
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This paper attempts to study precisely the natural resource (oil& gas reserves) effect on economic development profile … empirically as to what extent has been influenced by oil wealth. First, we will test if economic growth and development is … footprints by comparing development and political indicators in Persian Gulf with comparison of different subcategories of …
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This article re-examines the relationship between economic growth of the North and that of the South. It considers the implications of this relationship for two major issues within the current North-South debate: basic needs and exhaustible resources. The connections between international trade...
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The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order …. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate … article is to address these questions using as a basis the Bariloche Model. This model studies development strategies oriented …
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This article describes the macroeconomic model used in an ongoing study of technology policies and North-South relations. Other aspects of the study have been described elsewhere [1,2]. We examine here the rationale for the theoretical structure used in the model, the details of the equations,...
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Today's rapid and profound international evolution requires an update of the development agenda. As East-West relations … must be re-examined. New Items emerge on the development agenda. This paper will address the first two of these development …
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