development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …

the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses …, China, and India - to describe some of the strategies which Asian economies used in order to induce industrial development …

Successful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us … understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to … better diagnosis and to better-designed solutions. This paper sketches how to use behavioral insights to design development …

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …

externality. This paper reviews the recent economic literature on diaspora networks and development from the perspective of the …

Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research …

years. This stems from, among other things, recognition in the Sustainable Development Goals that further domestic funding … is required for development needs, and the Addis Tax Initiative, which aims to foster fairer and more effective domestic …

We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both …