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This collection of studies of public attitudes to development co-operation in OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Member countries demonstrates that the concept of "aid fatigue" is misplaced. A serious lack of adequate knowledge about development co-operation, however, is also revealed....
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The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective …, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks …, a service providing access to the underlying data in Excel® format. These two volumes bring together estimates of world …
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, “exporter ranking”, is for investors whose prime concern is for a production platform well-integrated into world trade …
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Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000 when rich … countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa. The gap between the world leader, the US and the poorest region, Africa, is … reference and a sequel to the author's Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992, published in 1995 and his 1998 Chinese Economic …
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Following his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective, Angus Maddison here offers a rare insight into the history … tables showing Maddison’s estimates for the world and its major regions from as early as the year 1000. It is intended as a … and economic history as well as for statisticians. …
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Achieving the economic development of poor countries remains, even in the third millennium, a formidable challenge which increasingly preoccupies OECD countries. The Organisation's Development Centre was founded in 1962 as one means to study and to try to confront the problems of comparative...
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The Internet has been remarkably successful in developing greater opportunities for communication access - and economic growth and social development - for the first billion users. The majority of the next several billion users will be mainly from developing countries and will connect to the...
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Information communication technologies (ICTs) are crucial to reducing poverty, improving access to health and education services and creating new sources of income and employment for the poor. Being able to access and use ICTs has become a major factor in driving competitiveness, economic growth...
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