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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
, we apply: descriptive statistics analysis, Kernel Epanechnikov density (to check for world distribution of social welfare … Affairs, Population Division; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; World Health Organization …
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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056564
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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?
Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014
I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147300
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Economic Development in Pre-Independence Botswana, 1820-1966: Historical Trends, Contributing and Countervailing Factors
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the trajectory of economic development in Botswana between the years 1820 and 1966, when it achieved independence. First, I review the historical trends in the country’s economic and social development indicators. I then proceed to analyze what factors have encouraged or...
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A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
book explains well what this volume is all about--why economics can’t explain the modern world. An important modifier would … be – modern economics can’t explain the modern world – because much of what McCloskey argues is the resurrection of an … Friedman. Fundamentally, she reasserts the power of ideas to shape the world. McCloskey’s narrative is simple and compelling …
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Unternehmer und Grundherren Nord-Nigerias im Kampf um die politische Macht: Zum sozialen Aufstieg der einheimischen Wirtschaftselite in den nigerianischen Emiraten
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1978
The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlord- and the growing commercial class in Bida and other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influence the pattern of social communication between these two classes...
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Education Performance: Was It All Determined 100 Years Ago? Evidence From São Paulo, Brazil
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu; Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper deals with institutional persistence in long-term economic development. We investigate the historical record of education in one of the fastest growing and most unequal societies in the twentieth century – the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on historical data from an...
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How rich nations got rich. Essays in the history of economic policy.
Reinert, Erik S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
smaller Third World nations seem to lose out under globalisation. The problem of failing and failed states is growing. In … response to the increasing challenges, the focal points of the Washington Institutions – the World Bank and the International …
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The Coming Golden Age of New Europe
Marcin, Piatkowski - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
New Europe has never had it so good. Its income, quality of life and level of happiness have never been closer to that of the developed countries in Western Europe. With its per capita income at an all-time high and the quality of life almost indistinguishable from developed countries, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497656