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important process of economic development is learning. Therefore, e-commerce is an important contributor to the learning process …
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This article re-examines the relationship between economic growth of the North and that of the South. It considers the …
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This article describes the macroeconomic model used in an ongoing study of technology policies and North-South relations. Other aspects of the study have been described elsewhere [1,2]. We examine here the rationale for the theoretical structure used in the model, the details of the equations,...
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with development, a relationship we observe in cross-country data. The model captures additional dimensions of data, namely …: (i) increasing income inequality, but converging growth rates; (ii) an association between weak social ties and … development; and (iii) an association between number of social ties and size of the transaction sector. …
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intensity across the American Midwest during its initial development, the empirical analysis establishes that higher initial …
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-2000 period. Thereafter, it demonstrates the importance of networks in international trade by explicitly accounting for their … traded in "dispersed" networks. For goods that are traded in "concentrated" networks, factor endowment differentials are less …
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in furthering economic growth and development. The implications for the donor community of the decreasing relative … particular, that much greater care should be exercised when applying macro performance evaluation to development assistance. This …
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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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Trends in Globalization’ website (http://ablog.typepad.com/), the paper analyzes growth in four types of country typified by … the EU, the USA, India, and China. The fastest growth has been registered in China, which has followed a policy of … expansionary money with strong banking controls, combined with an investment-led stimulus. Strong growth has also however been …
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development addressing three fundamental structural problems: (1) In what technologies should a modernising, developmental … strategy focus? (2) What is the relation between economic and human development and how can the latter be assured by the course … reduce the consumption of resources, with all the attendant risks that beset modern development strategies including …
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