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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor);  … - 2007
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607741
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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2011
research is needed to distinguish between alternative theoretical models. -- female empowerment ; gender equality ; development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238664
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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
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 ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832281
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary S. - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696021
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Project aid and firm performance
Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2021
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612641
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224596