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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975-2005

Grawe, Roger - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty …

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

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Black Man’s Burden: Measured Philanthropy in the British Empire, 1880-1913

Accominotti, Olivier; Flandreau, Marc; Rezzik, Riad; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

colonial rule was to create financial incentives to adopt development policies that encouraged government spending. …

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Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions 'trumps' everything else. Once institutions are...

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Democracy and Foreign Education

Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Do foreign educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home country? Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals foster democracy in their home countries. Using a...

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The Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent and Destructive Entrepreneurship

Sanders, Mark; Weitzel, Utz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies …

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The Great Transformation 1989-2029: Could It Have Been Better? Will It Be Better?

Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Over 1.8 billion people, from Central Europe to East Asia, have been involved in the great systemic transformation to market economy, civic society and democracy. The process has brought mixed fruits. The diversification of the current situation is a resu

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Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries

Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

It is often claimed that entrepreneurship is indispensable for economic growth and development. These claims are mostly … generated by scholars working in the field of entrepreneurship andmanagement studies. In contrast, development economics … scholars seem to be less concerned about entrepreneurship in the development process Who is right? I show that the arguments …

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Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?

Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to...

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A Two-thirds Rate of Success: Polish Transformation and Economic Development, 1989-2008

Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Progress in achieving institutional changes should be evaluated through the prism of their influence on the development … systemic change and socioeconomic development, GDP growth over the periods considered could have increased by more than half …

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