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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973696
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Urbanization and the Geography of Development
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2017
herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also … influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub …
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Public Policy and Industrial Transformation in the Process of Development
Agenor, 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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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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Development Economics as Taught in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...
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Social Norms Theory and Development Economics
Eriksson, Lina Maria Jorun - 2017
Social norms affect almost every aspect of people?s lives, and can be an obstacle to or support economic development. This paper outlines what social norms are and how they work, providing examples from everyday life and from development case studies. Sometimes not much can be done about...
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Which Donors, Which Funds? The Choice of Multilateral Funds by Bilateral Donors at the World Bank
Reinsberg, Bernhard - 2017
The rapid growth of trust funds at multilateral development organizations has been widely neglected in the academic literature so far. Using a simple illustrative model, this paper examines the choice by sovereign donors among various trust fund options. The authors contend that the choice among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970836
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The Middle-Income Trap Turns Ten
Gill, Indermit S. - 2017
Since we introduced the term ?middle-income trap? in 2006, it has become popular among policy makers and researchers. In May 2015, a search of Google Scholar returned more than 3,000 articles including the term and about 300 articles with the term in the title. This paper provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971141
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Demography, Urbanization and Development : Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push?
Jedwab, Remi - 2017
(industrialization and urban-biased policies). Using new historical data on urban birth and death rates for seven countries from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971521