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In much of the literature on economic development, sustained economic growth is expected to be accompanied by several …"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such transitions are usually accompanied by a transition in the economic …
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diversity and economic development depend substantially on coding errors and sample selection. We correct the coding errors and … hypothesis that variation in genetic diversity among subpopulations has a systematic relationship with economic development. …
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While economists have tended to focus on specific public policies when developing recommendations, the achievement of welfare objectives might depend more on the quality of policies than their content. This paper develops several measures of the qualities of policies across countries, arguing...
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This paper introduces preliminary evidence from a cross-country database of policy characteristics and potential uses of that database. While most databases have emphasized either the content of policies (e.g., size of government deficits) or countries' formal institutions (e.g., political...
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-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
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comparative development. We also show that ethnic inequality goes in tandem with lower levels development also within countries …
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This research suggests that the distribution of land within and across countries affected the nature of the transition … beneficial in early stages of development, generated in later stages a hurdle for human capital accumulation and economic growth … of industrialization affected the transition to modern growth and has brought about changes in the ranking of countries …
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development. …
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …
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-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …
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