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The New Development Economics : We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn?

Rodrik, Dani - 2008

Development economics is split between macro-development economists - who focus on economic growth, international trade, and fiscal/macro policies - and micro-development economists - who study microfinance, education, health, and other social programs. Recently there has been substantial...

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The Future of Convergence

Rodrik, Dani - 2011

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Is Global Equality the Enemy of National Equality?

Rodrik, Dani - 2017

The bulk of global inequality is accounted for by income differences across countries rather than within countries. Expanding trade with China has aggravated inequality in some advanced economies, while ameliorating global inequality. But the “China shock” is receding and other low-income...

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Potter, Philip B.K. - 2014

Politicians and scholars have long argued that democracies are less prone to international conflict, at least with … features of their political institutions that can facilitate (or hinder) the transmission of information between leaders and … whistle on foreign policy failures, and media institutions that can effectively relay this information to the voting public …

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Closing the Gender Gap in Education : Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps?

Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina - 2011

In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in which it reversed. Then we turn to an analysis of the state of other gaps...

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