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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

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/10010268174

Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268511

Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143

Institutions and Development : The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

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Income, democracy, and critical junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012

institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291403

Are we there yet? Time for checks and balances on new institutionalism

Iyigun, Murat - 2012

economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three … identification, they too narrowly defined what Northian institutions entail. As a matter of fact, political, legal and economic … institutions are highly malleable even in advanced economies, while sustained economic growth could well be deep rooted in …

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Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …

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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262276

Re-orient? MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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