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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
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This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development … Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include … trade relations, investment in sub-Saharan Africa, global politics of development and more. …
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The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …
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This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …
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Development is a major contribution to the debate on the great and delicate issues facing the world economy in the years to come ….” -Salvatore Schiavo-Campo, former Senior Adviser at the Asian Development Bank, the Philippines “This book makes a unique … contribution in documenting an important chapter of the history of development cooperation.” -Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, former …
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat … with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development … bodies in economics, development and politics studying Africa's economic development, and Korea's economic growth model …
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This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the … Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption … use of mineral, forest and other natural resources, nature-based tourism through proper infrastructure development, and …
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