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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463899
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COVID-19 and the case for global development
Oldekop, Johan A.; Horner, Rory; Hulme, David; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 134 (2020), pp. 1-4
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Entrepreneurship for all? : the rise of a global "entrepreneurship for development" agenda, 1950-2021
Lee, Seungah S. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 166 (2023), pp. 1-13
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Defining a global urban development agenda
Parnell, Susan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 78 (2016), pp. 529-540
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The Southern origins of sustainable development goals : Ideas, actors, aspirations
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Muchhala, Bhumika - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 126 (2020), pp. 1-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195971
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2007
The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a … globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …
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Delocalizing communities : changing forms of community engagement in natural resources governance
Ojha, Hemant R.; Ford, Rebecca; Keenan, Rodney J.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 274-290
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Sectoral productivity growth and poverty reduction : national and global impacts
Ivanic, Maros; Martin, Will - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 109 (2018), pp. 429-439
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980825
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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2011
Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities are a key driver of...
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