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From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy : explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2018
Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won't play the same role in the coming decades. An increase in manufacturing employment won't suffice to meet the...
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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472013
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Rethinking Asian Drama
Nayyar, Deepak - 2018
Gunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama in 1968, a work which made important analytical contributions to our understanding of development but was deeply pessimistic about Asia's future prospects. Since then, contrary to Myrdal's expectations, Asia's development has been remarkable, although...
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Competitiveness and diversification of service exports in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of the East African Community
Were, Maureen; Odongo, Maureen - 2019
Growth in service exports has improved countries' per capita incomes, reduced over-reliance on goods exports, and promoted economic diversification. However, the growth has not been uniform across regions and countries. Africa lags behind in service exports. This paper examines the...
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Security of property rights for whom?
Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2011
Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. This one-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381922
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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states
Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010
This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the practical interest and relevance has been somewhat disregarded in academic research. Given the necessity to support policy formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660846
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Property rights and elites
Amsden, Alice H. - 2010
An elite derives its status from its relationship to property, whether physical or human capital. While stable property … have a positive impact on economic development when a country's elite can manage them. To support this generalization we … examine the managerial capacity associated with elite status, highlighting which capabilities enable them to control changes …
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Constitutional social and environmental human rights and child health outcomes in Latin American countries
Matsuura, Hiroaki - 2016
This paper analyses the health-improving effects of introducing four different constitutional social and environmental human rights (health, free education, adequate living (or welfare), and environment) and the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) into national constitution and...
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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? : the political economy challenge of special economic zones
Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - 2014
African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434534
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Is there a fiscal resource curse? : resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies
Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020
States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in...
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