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A Cluster-Based Industrial Development Policy for Low-Income Countries

Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2017

The need to construct an effective strategy for industrial development in low-income countries has been largely ignored by development economists because industrial policies have failed in many developing countries. This does not imply, however, that industrial development cannot be promoted....

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Culture, Politics, and Development

Woolcock, Michael - 2017

Whether in the domains of scholarship or practice, important advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a fourth distinctive perspective vis-?-vis their...

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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics

Artuc, Erhan - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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Escaping the Capability Trap : Turning"Small"Development Into"Big"Development

Campos, J. Edgardo - 2017

The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...

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Creating and Usingfiscal Space for Accelerated Development in Liberia

Löfgren, Hans - 2017

This paper presents simulations for the period 2013-2030 of measures that permit increased spending on infrastructure and human development, the priority areas in Liberia's 2013-2017 "Agenda for Transformation" and for its national vision, Liberia Rising 2030. The simulations are carried out...

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Shifting Patterns of Economic Growth and Rethinking Development

Lin, Justin Yifu - 2017

This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world and the evolution of economic thought on development policy. The 20th century was broadly characterized by divergence between high-income countries and the developing world, with...

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How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?

Woolcock, Michael - 2017

The consensus among scholars and policymakers that "institutions matter" for development has led inexorably to a conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical step has not yet been taken, which is to recognize...

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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s

Ahmed, Sabin - 2017

Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment away...

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Public Policy and Industrial Transformation in the Process of Development

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2017

imitation sector. The process of industrialization increases the demand for high-skill labor, inducing individuals to invest in …

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An Emerging Agricultural Problem in High-Performing Asian Economies

Hayami, Yūjirō - 2016

identified as a major source of the disequilibrium of world agriculture. Recently, as many high-performing economies in Asia … advanced from the low-income to the middle-income stage through successful industrialization, they have been confronted with … of high-performing economies in Asia from being disrupted by political crises …

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