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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2008

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

Schultz, T. Paul - 2011

status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent …

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Monotheism (from a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007.We...

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Migration and Globalization : What's in it for Developing Countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …

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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19

Naudé, Wim - 2021

industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization â … of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …

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The Covid-19 Conundrum in the Developing World : Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?

Robalino, David A. - 2020

It is almost certain that the world economy is entering a recession of historic proportions; how bad things get will …

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