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According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured;...
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This is an update and revision of our 2009 study. Using a broad dataset and an original methodology, this paper reports composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between the observed and the expected development level...
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into nine macro-thematic sections: governance, participation and rights; environmental sustainability; food security, land …
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We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a …. -- Technology ; Economic Growth ; Relational Goods ; Social Participation ; Social Capital …
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participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has … resulted in a steep rise in online social participation. Our study adds to this body of research by conducting the first … participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face-to-face interactions. However, social trust …
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We introduce the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced. We use the data on language proficiency in EU and show that, in spite of the widespread knowledge of English, the retention of French and German as working languages in essential...
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