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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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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development
Bluhm, Richard - 2019
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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China and the World Bank - How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Gehring, Kai - 2019
China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861418
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China and the World Bank : How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart C.; Wong, Melvin H.L - 2019
China’s development model challenges the approaches of traditional, Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that … analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the World Bank and China does not increase …, while World Bank projects strengthen democratic values …
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The Neoclassical Growth of China
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Ohanian, Lee E.; Yao, Wen - 2023
This paper studies China’s four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we argue that China’s growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very quickly. Second, we show that a minimalist...
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The Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan : The Case of Daocheng County
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...
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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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How deep are the roots of economic development?
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283630
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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824582
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
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