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Economic Growth, Convergence, and World Food Demand and Supply
Fukase, Emiko - 2017
In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important source of the increase in food demand is per capita demand growth induced by rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942612
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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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Government Connections and Financial Constraints : Evidence from a Large Representative Sample of Chinese Firms
Cull, Robert - 2017
resources after the "grabbing-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small" privatization program in China. Firms with government … behavior and financing conditions, and provide further evidence on the nature of the misallocation of credit by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974635
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Who Will Feed China in the 21st Century? Income Growth and Food Demand and Supply in China
Fukase, Emiko - 2017
This paper uses resource-based cereal equivalent measures to explore the evolution of China's demand and supply for … food. Although demand for food calories is probably close to its peak level in China, the ongoing dietary shift to animal … relationship between income growth and food demand with data from a wide range of countries, China's demand growth appears to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973105
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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty
Cruz, Marcio - 2017
Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968199
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How Significant is Africa's Demographic Dividend for its Future Growth and Poverty Reduction?
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of its population. The opportunity of African countries to convert these changes into demographic dividends for growth and poverty reduction will depend on several factors. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972402
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Health, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth
Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2017
This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976542
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Governors and Governing Institutions : A Comparative Study of State-Business Relations in Russia's Regions
Gharafutdinova, Gulnaz - 2017
The paper uses the latest 2011 round of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian Federation, which for the first time was designed to be representative of Russian regions. The paper takes a closer look at regional-level factors influencing the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972727
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2017
The paper examines the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a new cross-country panel dataset on the distribution of income and expenditure. It uses an econometric methodology to gauge whether a larger middle class has a causal effect on policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975330