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The Natural Resource Curse : A Survey
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2010
sub-standard economic performance. They are: long-term trends in world commodity prices, volatility, crowding out of …
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470966
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463899
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467514
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2014
Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries--in education, personal autonomy, and more--explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458286
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2007
The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a … globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464960
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter - 2005
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467057
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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2011
Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities are a key driver of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461515
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Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
Korinek, Anton; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the past half century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482670