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Culture, Politics, and Development
Woolcock, Michael - 2017
understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a …
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The Anatomy of Failure : An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India
Ananthpur, Kripa - 2017
facilitation program in rural India, with an in-depth, four-year ethnography of the intervention to understand the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973031
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Reverse Mortgages, Financial Inclusion, and Economic Development : Potential Benefit and Risks
Knaack, Peter - 2020
This paper examines the state of reverse mortgage markets in selected countries around the world and considers the potential benefits and risks of these products from a financial inclusion and economic benefit standpoint. Despite potentially increasing demand from aging societies -- combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842637
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957710
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Regional Diversity and Inclusive Growth in Indian Cities
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services sectors. Specialization and diversity metrics that combine industries in both sectors are calculated and related to subsequent job growth. The analysis finds robust and consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973124
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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974383
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The Whys of Social Exclusion : Insights from Behavioral Economics
Hoff, Karla - 2017
All over the world, people are prevented from participating fully in society through mechanisms that go beyond the structural and institutional barriers identified by rational choice theory (poverty, exclusion by law or force, taste-based and statistical discrimination, and externalities from...
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture : The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst - 2017
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975837
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The Strength of American Federal Democracy : Lessons for Global Development
Myerson, Roger - 2017
always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and … drawn to centralized democracy, as national elites may prefer to centralize power around themselves. America's successful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970481
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Long-Run Effects of Democracy on Income Inequality : Evidence from Repeated Cross-Sections
Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017
This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …
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