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How Economic Ideas Led to Taiwan's Shift to Export Promotion in the 1950s
Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Taiwan was perhaps the first developing country to adopt an export-oriented trade strategy after World War II. The …. In 1954, economist S. C. Tsiang proposed that Taiwan boost export earnings rather than squeeze import spending to deal … later, a leading policymaker, K. Y. Yin, fought for the adoption of Tsiang's proposal, helping clear the way for Taiwan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629518
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My Policies or Yours : Does OECD Support for Agriculture Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?
McMillan, Margaret - 2005
This paper investigates the impact of rich-country agricultural support on the poor. Using non-parametric analysis we establish that the majority of poor countries are consistently net importers of food products that are heavily supported by OECD governments. Using a cross-country regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467395
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Population and economic change in developing countries
Easterlin, Richard Ainley (ed.); Easterlin, Richard A. (ed.) - 1980
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000068130
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470406
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
, Egypt, Japan, Korea, the Punjab, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay. These 9 have been added to a previously-collected data base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470966
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Emerging Equity Markets and Economic Development
Bekaert, Geert - 2000
We provide an analysis of real economic growth prospects in emerging markets after financial liberalizations. In contrast with previous research, we identify the financial liberalization dates and examine the influence of liberalizations while controlling for a number of other macroeconomic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470987
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Trade Policy and Economic Development : How We Learn
Krueger, Anne O. - 1997
Ideas with regard to trade policy and economic development have changed radically since the 1950s. Then and now, it was recognized that trade policy was central to the overall design of policies for economic development. But in the early days, there was a broad consensus that trade policy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472932
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Choosing a Dictator : Bureaucracy and Welfare in Less Developed Polities
Rauch, James E. - 1995
Recent work in the sociology of economic development has emphasized the establishment of a professional government bureaucracy in place of political appointees as an important component of the institutional environment in which private enterprise can flourish. I focus on the role that internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473683