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Eight strategies for development in comparison

Priewe, Jan - 2015

The article provides a broad-based overview on competing development strategies and the economic performance of … developing countries, mainly since the year 2000. Four traditional mainstream development strategies are discussed (Washington … outward development with export-led growth, industrialisation or growth with predominant primary goods exports, foreign …

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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies

Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263207

The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession …

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ELR-led economic development: a plan for Tunisia

Kaboub, Fadhel - 2007

country like Tunisia. It argues that an ELR-led economic development policy is vastly superior to the traditional import … substitution industrialization (ISI), export-led, and FDI-led development models, all of which Tunisia has adopted without much …

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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altındağ, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010

democracy. The results suggest that periods of high unemployment and joblessness would hinder the development of democracy. …

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Political institutions, intertemporal cooperation, and the quality of policies

Scartascini, Carlos; Stein, Ernesto; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

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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Barriers to exit

Chong, Alberto; León, Gianmarco - 2006

Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a crosssection of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and brain-drain...

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Political institutions, state capabilities and public policy: International evidence

Scartascini, Carlos; Stein, Ernesto; Tommasi, Mariano - 2008

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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Inequality and economic development: An overview

Galor, Oded - 2009

development. …

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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development

Galor, Oded - 2011

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284077