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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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overcome this problem, which is the main cause of deceleration in the growth momentum of Pakistan’s economy. Due to lack of … growth phase (1978 to 2002) in Pakistan. This paper argues that economic as well as non-economic factors are responsible for … rates in the economy, increase expenditures on infrastructural development activities and that can also increase the …
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Julian Simon has stated, in many of his recent publications, that population growth, although reducing income per … capita in the short run through capital dilution, increases the rate of growth of that same income per capita in the long run …
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Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development … paper analyses the growth and development experience in India using multiple indicators. Development seems to have lagged … the remarkable growth that has occurred recently has not been egalitarian and hence development has failed to keep pace …
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prolonged exceptional growth which can be considered, at least economically, a solution to a crisis. I draw two immediate … means that sustainable growth, centered on the enhancement and extension of the human spirit instead of the material … the gross inequalities characterizing the present crisis; but, second, to initiate a new process of growth in which the …
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We study labor productivity in agriculture within a two-region, two factor and two commodity economy. Increases in productivity can lead to higher or to lower agricultural prices, depending on the internal structure of the economy. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for either outcome;...
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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