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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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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; 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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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19

Naudé, Wim - 2021

of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Us Presidential Party Switches are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022

The Global Gag Rule is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations offering abortion-related information or services. Since first implemented by President Reagan in 1984, it has been enacted under every Republican and revoked under every Democrat. It was...

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COVID-19 Severity : A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths

Millimet, Daniel L.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - 2021

Accurate counts of cases and deaths are critical for devising an optimal pandemic response. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, so too has the recognition that cases and deaths have been underreported, perhaps vastly so. Here, we present an econometric strategy to estimate the true...

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Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth

Cervellati, Matteo - 2011

This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the 'Third Wave', we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than...

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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...

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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19 : Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well- being of markets, in which …

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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence : A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2009

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are mostly poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation...

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