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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo - 2011
also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as...
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022
Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083794
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773083
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132818
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2012
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
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