In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers … world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … development, and social cohesion. To this end, we first developed UNDP-type performance indicators on these six main dimensions of …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

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. …

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 …

countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …