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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011

In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...

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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

best measures affecting the establishment of the Green Economy – including its development and outcomes. This paper … provides a survey of the green economy in self-contained form and accessible to the non-specialist readers. First, it reviews … the recent developments in green economy: its theoretical foundation, political background and developmental strategies …

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We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It

Naudé, Wim - 2023

, are described. It is concluded that the notion that a degrowth economy can generate the technological progress necessary … consequence of degrowth is a zero-sum society: redistribution, instead of production, becomes the basis of the economy. In such a …

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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

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Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct capability measurement literature can be adapted for...

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Does reform work? An econometric examination of the reform-growth puzzle

Babetskii, Ian; Campos, Nauro F. - 2007

Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...

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Is the Chinese growth miracle built to last?

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007

benign international environment, this approach makes it unlikely that the economy will face a collapse in growth. But there …

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Macroeconomic policy and unemployment by economic activity: evidence from Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - 2008

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in two respects. First, we consider not only the response...

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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...

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Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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