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industrialization and comparative economic development across the globe. Exploiting exogenous sources of variations in land productivity … contemporary social capital and development. …
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Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development … paper analyses the growth and development experience in India using multiple indicators. Development seems to have lagged … the remarkable growth that has occurred recently has not been egalitarian and hence development has failed to keep pace …
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and International Economy. That is why, by making use of R&D (Research & Development) cooperation mechanisms, Romania … information resources, facilitating both the integration processes and the economic and social development. …
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This work presents 3 case studies from the Czech Republic based on a long term qualitative research. The main issue under study is a description of peripheral municipalities and their neighbors in terms of everyday life, history and future of these places.
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This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity was conducive long-run reproductive success within the human species. Exploiting an extensive genealogy record for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the study traces the...
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A surprising cross country stylized fact is that a higher public spending on education tends to lower the long run per capita growth rate and schooling returns. This is contrary to the conventional wisdom that education is a major driver of growth. In this paper, we revisit this issue and try to...
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Recent empirical studies concerning the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic development have all been … relationship between the share of technology embodied into FDI and the level of economic development in the host country. …
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developers in order to experience higher level of development. Hence, the study analyses the effect of technology production and …
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subjective well-being, and the recent development of composite indices as alternatives to GDP, this paper seeks to analyze …
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indigenous development capacities. Innovators in the informal sector and the agency of the civil society, embedded in the local … socio-cultural setting, but closely linked to transnational social spaces, do often outperform the state's development … invented or adapted to changing requirements of societies. Rather than blaming the failure of development efforts in Africa …
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