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corruption active, et une orientation des économies pour la croissance locale. Ce système engendre une urbanisation très rapide …
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This paper questions the Lewis Path perspective of a "world without agriculture" which underpins the "structural … them and other workers. After showing how land constraints and the productivity dynamics outside agriculture might prevent …
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entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives … the developing world tends to be low productivity employment, and as countries move up the development path, the …
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. After a long time of disinterest in the agriculture sector in Africa, several voices arise now in favour of greater efforts …Contrary to Asian countries, the agricultural sector in Africa had not benefited from the green revolution success … towards this sector. Several studies tend to show the crucial role of agriculture in African countries' growth and highlight …
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We study the impact of transportation infrastructure on agriculture and development in colonial Ghana. Two railway …. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …
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This paper aims to shed light on the role of the "ideology" of political parties in shaping the evolution of the welfare state in 18 developed democracies, by providing empirical findings on the determinants of social programs entitlements and social spending over the period 1981-1999. The paper...
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The goal of this paper is to (re)assess the relationship between knowledge intensive busi- ness services (KIBS) and the economic growth. Taking into account various conflicting relationships between KIBS and growth, we build a multi agent-based system involving industrial firms,...
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This paper envisages endogenous technical change as resulting from the interplay between the economic growth engine, consumption, technology and localization patterns. We perform numerical simulations with the recursive dynamic general equilibrium model IMACLIM-R to study how modeling induced...
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This paper proposes a new test for structural instability in heterogeneous panels. The test builds on the seminal work of Andrews (2003) originally developed for time series. It is robust to non-normal, heteroskedastic and serially correlated errors, and allows for the number of post break...
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This paper envisages endogenous technical change as resulting from the interplay between the economic growth engine, consumption, technology and localization patterns. We perform numerical simulations with the recursive dynamic general equilibrium model IMACLIM-R to study how modeling induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789099