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This paper was originally presented at the ‘Marxism and Political Economy’ conference called by the International Socialist Journal on Saturday 29th September 2007. A revised version was presented to the Historical Materialism conference on 13th November 2007. It enquires why, although...
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This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate …. However the reverse happens, and development theory is deprived of an adequate explanation for national differentiation in … assesses the skewed character which results, in contemporary accounts (both within and outside economics) of development …
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The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism … institutes. Social development is considered as result of opposition of a society and the social systems. The author offers new …
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economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to the ‘inclusive development’ of 53 African countries during the 1996 … doing business as expressed in the state of KE, and through it to the inclusive development via the economic growth of those … inclusive development. In fact, growth of this kind has stronger effects on inclusive development and by implication on poverty …
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a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
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This paper describes the history of the national accounts starting from the incidental estimates by Petty, King and Davenant in the seventeenth century. The period 1930-1950 was a revolution in terms of the roles and uses of the national accounts, e.g. the discovery of input-output analysis,...
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Recent political transformations in Arab countries suggest that solutions have to be found for the problem of lacking economic prospects and particularly of high youth unemployment. Such solutions have to consist of economic growth that unfolds widespread employment effects. A tourism policy...
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The development of Abu Dhabi and Dubai during past years seems breathtaking. Both emirates pursue a strategy of …
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Cluster policy has arrived at the mainstream of economic policy since the early 1990. In many developing countries including those on the African continent, clusters on the regional and local levels have been promoted. The North African countries offer an interesting case because of their...
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From a broad philosophical framework, this paper addresses the relation between freedom and economic performance. It argues for the thesis that, although a liberal system does not guarantee absolute harmony, is the only "convenient" and morally valid for a modern society. The core of this...
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