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Inequality and economic development: An overview
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper provides an overview of the modern perspective on the relationship between inequality and economic …
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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development
Galor, Oded - 2011
dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284077
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Ethnic inequality
Alesina, Alberto; Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - 2012
countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420261
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Breaking the mold: Thoughts on Punjab's future economic development
Singh, Nirvikar - 2015
The economy of Punjab state in India offers an interesting case study. Punjab has been for decades - and remains - one of India's better-off states, and so it tends not be included in the primary focus of national programs meant to reduce poverty or spur economic development. But, Punjab's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406345
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Development (Paradigm) Failures
Hodler, Roland - 2011
Over time the international development community has advocated various development paradigms, but countries following these paradigms have often performed poorly. I provide an explanation for this poor performance. In my model the political leader of a developing country chooses a policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430081
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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318983
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Truth vs. justification: Contrasting heterodox and mainstream thinking on development via the example of austerity in Africa
Sindzingre, Alice - 2021
The differences between mainstream and 'heterodox' theories and policies have become increasingly blurred, and this dynamic has also affected heterodox analyses of development. Being trapped by the primacy of the statistics-based methodological imperative, much heterodox thinking on development...
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A 'Low-Road' Approach to the Haitian Apparel Sector
Lundahl, Mats; Söderlund, Bengt - 2021
The paper analyzes the need for structural change in the Haitian economy, an economy where the majority make their living in agriculture – a sector characterized by a severe erosion problem. It is argued that tourism does not offer any solution, other than possibly in the long run. The only...
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Land productivity and economic development: Caloric suitability vs. agricultural suitability
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015
This paper establishes that the Caloric Suitability Index (CSI) dominates the commonly used measure of agricultural suitability in the examination of the effect of land productivity on comparative economic development. The analysis demonstrates that the agricultural suitability index does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526715
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Dams and Intergovernmental Transfer: Balancing Local Interests in China
Bao, Xiaojia
inequality among local governments, but whether large-scale dam projects are Pareto improving is still a question. Using the …-in-difference approach to estimate dam impacts at county level in China from 1996 to 2010. I find that a large-scale dam reduces local … counties correspondingly, making large-scale dam projects close to Pareto improving outcomes in China. …
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