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Innovation Theories: Relevance and Implications for Developing Country Innovation

Léger, Andréanne; Swaminathan, Sushmita - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Innovation is at the basis of economic development and as such, it is instrumental for developing countries. We review … the literature on innovation from the perspectives of four select branches of economics to build a conceptual framework of … innovation applicable to developing countries. The conceptual framework includes insights from the surveyed literature and …

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Explaining the Cross-National Time Series Variation in Life Expectancy: Income, Women’s Education, Shifts, and What Else?

Pritchett, Lant; Viarengo, Martina - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper examines the variation across countries and evolution over time of life expectancy. Using historical data going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life expectancy are established. The paper shows that even...

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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...

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The political dimension of inequality during economic development

Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2009

European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...

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Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development

Pineda, José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are...

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International Migration and Human Development in Turkey

Içduygu, Ahmet - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in most countries. It is argued that caused by economic hardship or political hardship or political unrest in countries of origin, it would threaten well-being and identity in...

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Internal Migration, Selection Bias and Human Development: Evidence from Indonesia and Mexico

Deb, Partha; Seck, Papa - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to migration using non-experimental data taking both observed and unobserved characteristics into account. A significant challenge related to migration research and the issues of unobserved heterogeneity is that the standard 2stage least squares...

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Trafficking in Persons and Human Development: Towards A More Integrated Policy Response

Laczko, Frank; Danailova-Trainor, Gergana - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

Poverty is often regarded as the "root cause" of trafficking, but the linkages between poverty, lack of development and trafficking are complex. For example, there is some evidence to suggest that victims of cross-border trafficking are more likely to originate from middle-income rather than...

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HDR 1995 - Gender and Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

Human Development, if not engendered, is endangered. That is the simple but far-reaching message of Human Development Report 1995. The Report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades, highlighting the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding...

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HDR 1997 - Human Development to Eradicate Poverty

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not...

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