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Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture : The Role of Biotechnology

Juma, Calestous - 2013

biotechnology. Areas of the developing world lagging in the utilization and accumulation of technology have the ability not only to …

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From Third World to First - What's Next? Singapore's Obligations to the Rest of the World from a Human Rights Perspective

Risse, Mathias - 2015

age as a First World country, as captured by the title of a recent book by the Founding Father of modern Singapore, Mr Lee … Kuan Yew. But First World countries are normally taken to have substantial obligations towards the less advanced parts of … the world. In this respect, what are Singapore's obligations? We will also revisit Singapore's relationship with the human …

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Do International Organizations Really Shape Government Solutions in Developing Countries?

Andrews, Matthew - 2013

International organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have been supporting reform initiatives …

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Securing Property Rights

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice through legal skill, bribery, or physical force by the strong — the state or its powerful citizens — against the weak. We present evidence that the less educated and poorer citizens in many countries feel their...

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Big Data and Big Cities : The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures for Urban Life

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

of the developing world. We then discuss how survey techniques can be improved to better measure willingness to pay for …

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Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient : Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Worldwide

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2015

Targeted transfer programs for poor citizens have become increasingly common in the developing world. Yet, a common … countries throughout the world, and find no systematic evidence that cash transfer programs discourage work …

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Dealing with Debt

Reinhart, Carmen - 2015

This paper explores the menu of options for renormalizing public debt levels relative to nominal activity in the long run, should governments eventually decide to do so. Orthodox ones for medium-term debt stabilization, the standard fare of officialdom, include enhancing growth, running primary...

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Development as Leadership-Led Change - A Report for the Global Leadership Initiative and the World Bank Institute (WBI)

Andrews, Matthew; McConnell, Jesse; Wescott, Alison O. - 2010

findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global Leadership Initiative and led by the World Bank Institute (WBI), to …

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Informal Taxation

Olken, Benjamin A.; Singhal, Monica - 2009

Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications of this "informal taxation." Informal taxation is widespread, particularly...

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The Other Hand : High Bandwidth Development Policy

Hausmann, Ricardo - 2008

Much of development policy has been based on the search for a short to do list that would get countries moving. In this paper I argue that economic activity requires a large and highly interacting set of public policies and services, which constitute inputs into the production process. This is...

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