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Promiscuous elites and economic development

Brezis, Elise S. - 2012

it. Moreover, this paper shows that the bureaucratic elite obtains excessive bureaucratic power, and that promiscuous …This paper analyzes the interconnection between elites and its effects on economic growth. For decades, the … bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has …

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Higher education and mortality: Legacies of an authoritarian college contraction

González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; … - 2023

We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching...

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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 than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...

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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization

Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

incumbent elite is a negative function of the distance to the free world. In consequence, there are conflicting effects of … geography on political power shifting. The paper provides a rationale for the counterintuitive fact that the first authoritarian …

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011

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Community Development in Trinidad and Tobago: 1943-1973 : from welfare to patronage

Craig, Susan E. - 1974

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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries

Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015

There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...

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Hobbes and the political economy of power

Wittman, Donald - 2006

This paper evaluates the sustainability of large current account imbalances in the era when the Chinese GDP growth rate and current account/GDP exceed 10%. We investigate the size distribution and the durability of current account deficits during 1966-2005, and report the results of a simulation...

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