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This paper outlines the contours of global economic development, since 1980, to analyse underlying factors and consider …, manufacturing and trade, is striking. But development, driven by rapid economic growth, has been most uneven. It is concentrated in … to development, rather than unique solutions, so that one-size-does-not-fit-all and there are choices to be made. And it …
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the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on … to diversify, options for pacing development, and appropriate performance measures. …
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The impact of conflict on taxation and development has long been debated. Most studies suggest that conflict will have … a depressive effect on state tax collection, negatively impacting economic growth and development. After reviewing the …
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and economic development. The paper explores these novel constellations in employment and value added, global trade, and … technological upgrading. It argues that an expansion of service sector work in lockstep with rising economic development will likely …
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey …
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Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour and/or to the weaknesses of the Turkish...
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There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...
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sequencing, timing, and scale of the development of a natural resource endowment; reviews the ‘resource curse’ literature; looks …
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Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of … especially services, has the prospect of attaining the same success as the old manufacturing export-led strategy. The development … state will continue to be central, but has to be redefined. The new development strategies will require greater balance …
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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
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