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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …
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Asian Century or Multi-Polar Century?
Dollar, David - 2016
The rise of Asia is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of developing Asia, with nearly a billion people, accounted for only 7 percent, the same as Latin America....
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2017
This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...
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The Two Poverty Enlightenments : Historical Insights from Digitized Books Spanning Three Centuries
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
Word searches of Google's library of digitized books suggest that there have been two "Poverty Enlightenments" since 1700, one near the end of the 18th century and the second near the end of the 20th. The historical literature suggests that only the second came with a widespread belief that...
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Resource Rents, Coercion, and Local Development : Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bastos, Paulo - 2018
This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936462
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Do Land Market Restrictions Hinder Structural Change in a Rural Economy? Evidence from Sri Lanka
Emran, M. Shahe - 2018
This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a rural economy. This paper develops a theoretical model that focuses on higher migration costs due to restrictions on alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936640
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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009
This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...
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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2017
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746763
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Hiv/Aids and Social Capital in a Cross-Section of Countries
David, Antonio C. - 2017
quality, social distance, and economic indicators using data from the World Values Survey. The results obtained indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746827