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externality. This paper reviews the recent economic literature on diaspora networks and development from the perspective of the …
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development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …, socio-political contexts, international relations, and economic policies. These contrasts are investigated across four areas …
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Qualitative case studies suggest that the outcomes of tax treaty negotiations are determined by power politics and negotiating capability. In contrast, quantitative studies have tended to depart from a model that implies absolute gains, full rationality, and perfect information on the part of...
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The purpose of this paper is to capture the impact of foreign capital inflows (which include foreign aid and foreign direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and time-series data for the period 1980 - 2008, the results...
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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) constitute a major challenge for development in the Global South, as domestic resource …. Evidence further indicates that countries in the Global South are more exposed to individuals and multinational enterprises … South and the effectiveness of anti-IFF policies in countries outside Europe and the United States. …
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trade of developing countries have implicitly relied on the role of multinational corporations and foreign direct investment … structurally influencing terms of trade and thus provides fruitful directions for future research. -- terms of trade ; FDI …
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Most developing countries are increasingly dependent on fresh water based aquaculture (cage culture) to supplement the declining catch from capture fisheries. Yet, the competition for space between capture fisheries and cage culture, pollution generated by cage culture, and fish markets...
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The emergence of a mass market for electric vehicles (EVs) offers considerable development opportunities for resource … of strengthening institutions for effective policy management and to mitigate the risk of poorly directed, often …
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in East Asia and the failures in the countries pursuing Washington Consensus policies). …
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Successful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us … understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to … better diagnosis and to better-designed solutions. This paper sketches how to use behavioral insights to design development …
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