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The Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Eastern Caribbean
World Bank - 2012
The purpose of this report is to examine and propose options for policy design and implementation, based on a situational analysis for six Eastern Caribbean countries and a review of the lessons of other nations in prevention and control. A committed partner of the Organization of Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248117
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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive - 2009
"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback … demographic and economic data, and perform simulations for the period ending in 2100 under alternative assumptions about mortality … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …
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Telecommunications and economic development
Saunders, Robert J. - 1983 - 1. Print.
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The contribution of agriculture to economic growth : some empirical evidence
Hwa, Erh-Cheng - 1983
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Post-crisis growth in developing countries : a special report of the Commission on Growth and Development on the implications of the 2008 financial crisis
Commission on Growth and Development - 2009
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The Great Recession and developing countries : economic impact and growth prospects
Nabli, Mustapha K. (contributor) - 2010
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Managing openness : trade and outward-oriented growth after the crisis
Shepherd, Ben (contributor); Haddad, Mona (contributor) - 2011
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North-south trade-related technology diffusion, brain drain and productivity growth : are small states different?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
"The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those of large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in small and large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394122
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Weakly relative poverty
Ravallion, Martin - 2009
"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that very poor people incur a negligible cost of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394138
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Industrial structure, appropriate technology and economic growth in less developed countries
Lin, Justin Yifu - 2009
"The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394199