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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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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …

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Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships : A Cross Country Evidence

Neutel, Marcel - 2014

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T....

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …

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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values : The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno - 2014

real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust …

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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Human Capital and Growth : Specification Matters

Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

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For Benevolence and for Self-Interest : Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations

Estrin, Saul - 2011

We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...

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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo - 2012

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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