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A population's average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and changing long-run economic conditions facing women’s economic opportunity, inequality, and net nutrition during development. This study uses stature as a measure for cumulative net nutrition to show how female and male...
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economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been … counterparts. Gender collectively had the greatest explanatory effect associated with stature, followed by age and nativity …
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This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
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While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from …
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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 WB and China does not increase outright …
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
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supplemented with quantitative analysis fitting the data from China, to explore the role that reductions in trade and migration … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … toward China's admission to the WTO it does not contribute much to real per capita GDP growth. During this transition process …
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This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
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