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Dercon, Stefan - 2013

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …

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Natural resources: Curse or blessing?

van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2010

Are natural resources a 'curse' or a 'blessing'? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...

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Evaluating Recipes for Development Success

Dixit, Avinash - 2012

This paper provides a review of the contradictions and conflicts in the literature on economic governance and sketches an approach to use some of the conceptual and empirical findings from that literature for development policy. The literature offers conflicting conclusions on big questions:...

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Diasporas and Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence and Policy

Bahar, Dany - 2020

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital"

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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2013

While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad cross-country sample, the authors find that the...

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Shifting Patterns of Economic Growth and Rethinking Development

Lin, Justin Yifu; Rosenblatt, David - 2012

This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world … between high-income countries and the developing world, with only a limited number (less than 10 percent of the economies in … the world) managing to progress out of lower or middle-income status to high-income status. The last decade witnessed a …

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How Might Climate Change Affect Economic Growth in Developing Countries? A Review of the Growth Literature with a Climate Lens

Lecocq, Franck; Shalizi, Zmarak - 2012

This paper reviews the empirical and theoretical literature on economic growth to examine how the four components of the climate change bill, namely mitigation, proactive (ex ante) adaptation, reactive (ex post) adaptation, and ultimate damages of climate change affect growth, especially in...

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Finance and Economic Development : Policy Choices for Developing Countries

Demirg????-Kunt, Asl?? - 2012

-varies sharply around the world, with large differences among countries at similar levels of income. This paper argues that …

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Growth Trends in the Developing World : Country Forecasts and Determinants

Ianchovichina, Elena; Kacker, Pooja - 2012

these countries, representing major world regions and accounting for close to 80 percent of the developing world's GDP, they …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554231

Structural Change, Dualism and Economic Development : The Role of the Vulnerable Poor on Marginal Lands

Barbier, Edward B. - 2013

Empirical evidence indicates that in many developing regions, the extreme poor in more marginal land areas form a "residual" pool of rural labor. Structural transformation in such developing economies depends crucially on labor and land use decisions of these most-vulnerable populations located...

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