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Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he … was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a … planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978. This paper provides answers to the questions: Why was China trapped in …
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This paper discusses the 'developer's dilemma' - a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor. Simon Kuznets originally hypothesized that structural transformation may have a...
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This study evaluates the effects of the informal sector on Nigerian workers' livelihoods and analyses workers' transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General Household Survey panel data for the periods 2010/11,...
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) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn …
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Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...
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Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....
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The paper analyses the 20-year experience with transition in the SEE countries in a comparative framework, illustrating how these countries encountered difficulties in its implementation, despite having some of the best starting conditions in 1989 to implement a swift transition to a market...
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In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...
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in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost … and show that, despite progress, gender disparities in education persist in Benin. The opportunity cost of attending …
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trajectories ; Russia ; China …
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