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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
subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic … product. However, at 13 percent, this contribution is lower than commonly thought. For Rwanda, the three districts of Kigali … official statistics in Kenya and Rwanda, it is important to estimate subnational gross domestic product using standard …
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Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Cities
Lerner, Josh - 2017
entrepreneurship. In recent decades, efforts have increased to provide the world's poorest with financing and other assistance to … facilitate their entry into entrepreneurship or the growth of their small ventures. These are typically subsistence businesses …
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
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Egypt Beyond the Crisis : Medium-Term Challenges for Sustained Growth
Herrera, Santiago - 2017
The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis...
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"Small Miracles"-- Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy : World Development Report 2015
Demeritt, Allison - 2017
One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing...
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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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How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?
Woolcock, Michael - 2017
The consensus among scholars and policymakers that "institutions matter" for development has led inexorably to a conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical step has not yet been taken, which is to recognize...
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Is the New Political Economy Relevant to Developing Countries?
Lachler, Ulrich - 2017
Protectionism and industrial regulation are two topics in which the interplay of politics and economics is so strong that one wonders why the intellectual merger between the two approaches in the New Political Economy has taken so long. After describing the emergence of the state in Western...
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Development Strategies : Integrating Governance and Growth
Levy, Brian - 2017
A frontier challenge for development strategy is to move beyond prescribing optimal economic policies, and instead -- taking a broad view of the interactions between economic, political and social constraints and dynamics -- to identify entry points capable of breaking a low-growth logjam, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976706
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Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship
Fang, Sheng - 2019
associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by women), along with other … entrepreneurship rises with foreign direct investment inflow, lower entry barriers for women, women's better access to finance, higher … and female entrepreneurship is stronger for firms in the service sectors and small firms. The horizontal competition …
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