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Structural change and poverty reduction in Brazil : the impact of the DOHA round

Mauricio - 2006

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals : Mauritania should care

Bocchi, Alessandro Magnoli (contributor) - 2008

absolute terms, but the individual financing gaps are widest for poverty reduction and improving maternal health. On the policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521085

Public finance, security, and development : a framework and an application to Afghanistan

Byrd, William A. - 2009

"Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the...

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Political institutions and human development : Does democracy fulfil its 'constructive' and 'instrumental' role?

Vollmer, Sebastian - 2009

"Institutions are a major field of interest in the study of development processes. The authors contribute to this discussion concentrating our research on political institutions and their effect on the non-income dimensions of human development. First, they elaborate a theoretical argument why...

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Professional services and development : a study of Mozambique

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2009

"Professional skills are scarce in Mozambique, even by the standards of low-income countries. The solution, however, is not necessarily to create more Mozambican training institutions but to address market-specific problems. Where skills are already the binding constraint (for example, in...

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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises

De Mel, Suresh J. - 2009

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...

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In search of the missing resource curse

Lederman, Daniel - 2008

"The debate over the curse of natural resources has haunted developing countries for decades if not centuries. A review of existing empirical evidence suggests that the curse remains elusive. The fragile negative effect of natural resources on economic growth might be due to international...

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Infrastructure and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderán, César - 2008

and poverty reduction across the region. This paper offers an empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure …

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Exploring the links between HIV/AIDS, social capital, and development

David, Antonio C. - 2008

"This paper attempts to quantify the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on social capital with cross-country data. Using data from the World Values Survey, the authors estimate reduced-form regressions of the main determinants of social capital controlling for HIV prevalence, institutional quality,...

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Latin American universities and the third mission : trends, challenges, and policy options

Thorn, Kristian - 2006

"Universities in Latin America are increasingly considered instruments of social and economic development and face rising expectations in regard to supplying relevant skills, undertaking applied research, and engaging in commercial activity. The paper discusses trends and challenges within Latin...

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