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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries : a microeconomic perspective
Vivarelli, Marco - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536406
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Looking back on the lessons of "higher education and developing countries: peril and promise" : perspectives on China and India
Bloom, David E.; Altbach, Philip G.; Rosovsky, Henry - 2016
focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571936
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Inequality of learning in industrialised countries
Micklewright, John (contributor);  … - 2006
Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003523160
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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289903
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Gender and industrialization: developments and trends in the context of developing countries
Sorgner, Alina - 2021
This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484471
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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306216
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Lobbying, corruption and other banes
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2008
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755929
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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries
Heshmati, Almas (contributor);  … - 2007
Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646719
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Do international labor standards contribute to the persistence of the child labor problem?
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2009
In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860517
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Purchasing power parity for developing and developed countries : what can we learn from non-stationary panel data models?
Drine, Imed (contributor); Rault, Christophe (contributor) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004) and generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) to examine the robustness of the PPP concept for a sample of 80 developed and developing countries. We find that strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610062