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Antidiscrimination Law and Shared Prosperity : An Analysis of the Legal Framework of Six Economies and Their Impact on the Equality of Opportunities of Ethnic, Religious, and Sexua...
Panter, Elaine Rene Elizabeth - 2017
(Bulgaria, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Vietnam) and proposes a new methodology for collecting cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956737
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Unraveling a Secret : Vietnam's Outstanding Performance on the PISA Test
Parandekar, Suhas - 2017
This paper seeks to find an empirical explanation of Vietnam's outstanding performance on the Programme for … the unique exception of Vietnam, are typically clustered at the lower end of the range of the Programme for International … student Assessment scores. The paper compares Vietnam's performance with that of a set of seven developing countries from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969538
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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries
Bhargava, Alok - 2017
, the Philippines, and Tanzania is summarized. The supply of nutritious foods is appraised from the viewpoint of improving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972601
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957710
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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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Economic Impacts of Sanitation in Southeast Asia : Summary
Hutton, Guy - 2016
sanitation in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. By examining the economic impacts of poor sanitation, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747353
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Long-Run Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospects
Herrera, Santiago - 2017
Ghana's economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana's...
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Economic Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospect
Raggl, Anna Katharina - 2017
This paper employs a simple cross-country panel framework to assess the determinants of growth in Ghana's gross domestic product over the past four decades. A set of standard covariates is used to explain growth rates. Natural resource variables are included because the effects of natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973576
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Urbanization and (In)Formalization
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
Two of the great stylized predictions of development theory, and two of the great expectations of policy makers as indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening, beyond the "tipping point" where half the world's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974582
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Liberia : Strategic Policy Options for Medium Term Growth and Development
Dessus, Sebastien - 2017
The objective of this paper is to inform Liberia's medium-term growth and development strategy for 2012-17 and its National Vision: Liberia Rising 2030, both of which are under preparation. The analysis is based on MAMS (Maquette for MDG [Millennium Development Goal]) Simulations, a computable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975199