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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...
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Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World : Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2020
Low utilization of household credit in developing countries may be partially due to religious considerations. In a randomized marketing experiment in Jordan, this paper estimates the effect of sharia-compliant loan features on demand for credit. To comply with Islamic law, the sharia-compliant...
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On the Predictability of Growth
Cristelli, Matthieu Claudio Ascagne - 2017
A country's productive structure and competitiveness are harbingers of growth. Growth is a dynamic process based on capabilities that are difficult to define and measure across countries. This paper uses a global measure of fitness (or complexity-weighted diversity of production) as a method to...
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The Capabilities Driving Participation in Global Value Chains
Pathikonda, Vilas G. - 2017
Global value chains have altered the nature of global trade and offer significant opportunities for developing countries to expand exports, access technology, and raise productivity. Policy makers rightly seek to understand what it takes to participate in global value chains. In practice, this...
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The Role of Islamic Finance in Enhancing Financial Inclusion in Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Oic) Countries
Mohieldin, Mahmoud - 2017
The core principles of Islam lay great emphasis on social justice, inclusion, and sharing of resources between the … to build a healthy and vibrant economy. Instruments offered by Islam have strong historical roots and have been applied … and the state of traditional redistributive instruments. The paper concludes that Islam offers a rich set of instruments …
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Islamic vs. Conventional Banking : Business Model, Efficiency and Stability
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
This paper discusses Islamic banking products and interprets them in the context of financial intermediation theory. Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the conventional products can be redrafted as Sharia-compliant products, so that the differences are smaller than expected. Comparing...
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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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