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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747802
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973384
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development : Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts
Evans, David - 2017
As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...
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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence
Evans, David - 2017
supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973201
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African Cotton Markets at Crossroads : Will the Price Spike Turn into a New Kick-Start?
Delpeuch, Claire - 2017
After years of diplomatic efforts and legal procedures to obtain the elimination of rich countries' cotton subsidies, policy prospects for African cotton producers remain bleak. However, the world price for cotton has doubled in a year and has hit an all-time high. This paper examines these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975693
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Can Africa Replicate Asia's Green Revolution in Rice?
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
productivity, incomes, and poverty, and compares current conditions in Africa with the conditions that prevailed in Asia as its …. Moreover, many of the same practices that have proved successful in Asia and in Africa can be applied where yields are …Asia's green revolution in rice was transformational and improved the lives of millions of poor households. Rice has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976287
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
Enache, Maria - 2017
This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968717
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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda
Bundervoet, Tom - 2017
This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970754