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Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas
Gallego, Francisco A. - 2010
Levels of economic development vary widely within countries in the Americas. This paper argues that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era. Colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country, depending on local conditions. Some activities were...
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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 identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district...
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still weak and vulnerabilities rising, these lessons underscore the … need for comprehensive policies to improve EMDEs' resilience to shocks and lift long-term growth prospects. On the … potential growth that is expected to continue over the next decade. Renewed reform momentum is needed to create the environment …
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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...
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
-- all of which experienced rapid growth in recent years, but for different reasons. The patterns of growth are analyzed in … "fundamentals" challenges in growth. Out of the seven countries, the traditional path to rapid growth of export oriented …
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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?
Roberts, Mark - 2017
Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...
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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises
Lejarraga, Iza - 2018
This study presents a novel set of indicators on outcomes of foreign direct investment spanning 63 developing countries and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, the indicators highlight systematic differences between...
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Human Capital and Macro-Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence
Rossi, Federico - 2018
This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
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Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia
Apella, Ignacio - 2018
The objective of this paper is to study the evolution of the incidence and profile of nonstandard workers in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the past two decades. The analysis of the profile of this group of workers focuses on three key...
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From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
Lo Bello, Salvatore - 2019
developing countries, income (in growth and levels) is not associated with the skill content of jobs once the analysis accounts … employment growth in countries with a high share of occupations that are intensive in routine tasks …
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