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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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and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on economic growth forecasts, take into account recent global shocks such as … the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation shock. Our findings indicate that economic growth alone will not be sufficient to … this, we argue, is that a stronger focus is needed on inclusive growth (SDG-8), and specifically redistribution with growth …
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This paper traces a set of major trends and future scenarios in global structural change. It argues that across multiple domains of change, developing economies are facing novel constellations of lateness and prematurity in technological and economic development. The paper explores these novel...
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New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive...
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable...
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endogeneity problem in the aid-growth relationship. Evidence from a panel VAR model estimated on the dataset of NDHKM, suggests a …
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direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and … direct investment have positive and significant impacts on economic growth in the short and long terms, while the impact of … the labour force on growth was significantly negative in both terms, a result that may be attributable to the fact that …
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although there has been substantial economic growth, only a relatively small group of the new middle-income countries have … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …
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and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset … have an effect on growth. We find evidence to support the most recent studies showing that aid has a positive impact on … growth. We however, do not find evidence to support the proposition that institutional quality is a sine qua non conditional …
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We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in...
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