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This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the 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...
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This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …
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scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....
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Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
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of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India …
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focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
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The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …
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Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries … surveys in seven countries in West Africa in 2018/19 — a subregion with one of the lowest levels of mobile internet … penetration in the world — to identify the main factors that limit mobile broadband internet adoption. Results show that low …
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This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet … diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on … that economic strength, infrastructure and knowledge of the English language positively affect Internet connectivity. In …
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