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Nurkse and the role of finance in development economics

Kregel, Jan A. (contributor) - 2007

Ragnar Nurkse was one the pioneers in development economics. This paper celebrates the hundredth anniversary of his birth with a critical retrospective of his overall contribution to the field, in particular his views on the importance of employment policy in mobilizing domestic resources and...

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Financial flows and international imbalances : the role of catching up by late-industrializing developing countries

Kregel, Jan A. (contributor) - 2008

While the traditional approach to the adjustment of international imbalances assumes industrialized countries at a similar level of development and with similar production structures, such imbalances have historically been the result of a process of catching up by late-industrializing developing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727278

The discrete charm of the Washington Consensus

Kregel, Jan A. (contributor) - 2008

Over the last two centuries in Latin America a Washington Consensus development strategy based on integration in the global trading system has dominated both domestic demand management and industrialization from within.ʺ This paper assesses the performance of each from the point of view of the...

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EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited

Schmidt, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

convergence or economic cohesion, respectively. Following this strand of theory no regional policy is needed to achieve … convergence among the regions or nations of a common market. Thus, comparing the two internal markets, the question comes up if … inhibiting internal migration, which is one of the key measures in achieving convergence among the nations in the Single European …

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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

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