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Health, Inequality, and Economic Development
Deaton, Angus - 2001
I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of mechanisms, including nonlinear income effects, credit restrictions, nutritional traps, public goods provision, and relative deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of...
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Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
Korinek, Anton; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Progress in artificial intelligence and related forms of automation technologies threatens to reverse the gains that developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the past half century, aggravating poverty and inequality. The new...
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The Globalization of the Software Industry : Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries
Arora, Asish - 2004
The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...
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If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?
Comin, Diego A. - 2013
We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted. Using data from the last two centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor countries, while there has...
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The Future of Economic Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
The question addressed in this paper is whether the gap in performance between the developed and developing worlds can continue, and in particular, whether developing nations can sustain the rapid growth they have experienced of late. The good news is that growth in the developing world should...
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2014
--explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender … patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …
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Tropical Underdevelopment
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2001
Most recent cross-country analyses of economic growth have neglected the importance of physical geography. This paper reviews the distinctive development challenges faced by economies situated in tropical climates. Using geographic information system (GIS) mapping, the paper presents evidence...
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The Asymmetric Effects of Financial Frictions
Ordoñez, Guillermo - 2012
Economic variables are known to move asymmetrically over the business cycle: quickly and sharply during crises, but slowly and gradually during recoveries. Not known is the fact that this asymmetry is stronger in countries with less-developed financial systems. This new fact is documented using...
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Industrialization and health in historical perspective
Steckel, Richard H. (contributor) - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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