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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556001
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El Geomarketing y la distribución comercial
Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro - EconWPA - 2004
marketing strategies and discover those areas that are most likely to produce results. Marketing and geography leads to a whole …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556184
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Dual Economies and International Total Factory Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows that a significant part of measured total factor productivity (TFP) differences across countries is attributable not to technological factors that affect the entire economy neutrally, but rather, to variations in the structural composition of economies. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561240
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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004
This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of geographical factors\ in the determination of productivity in early stages of development to the domination of institutional factors in mature stages of development. It identifies a novel channel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125614
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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003
from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126217
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The Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions in the Process of Development
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005
This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408243
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Land Inequality and the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005
This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062436
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118852
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The Marketing Performance of Illinois and Kansas Wheat Farmers
Dietz, Sarah N.; Aulerich, Nicole M.; Irwin, Scott H.; … - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982 … average difference between farmer and market benchmark prices are sensitive to the market benchmark considered. Marketing … benchmark is used. The sensitivity of marketing performance to the market benchmark considered is explained by the seasonal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804781
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Base Acre and Yield Updating Decisions: Push to the Finish
Schnitkey, Gary; Coppess, Jonathan; Paulson, Nick; … - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250434