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Aid with Blinkers: Environmental Governance of Uranium Mining in Niger

Larsen, Rasmus Kløcker; Mamosso, Christiane Alzouma - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 62-76

The role of development cooperation in fostering improved environmental governance of extractive industries in African …

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The Vulnerability of Microfinance to Financial Turmoil – Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis

Wagner, Charlotte; Winkler, Adalbert - In: World Development 51 (2013) C, pp. 71-90

Has microfinance become crisis-prone like other sources of finance? This paper provides empirical evidence on credit growth patterns of microfinance institutions in the early 2000s. Results suggest that microfinance has become vulnerable to financial turmoil. In the global financial crisis...

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Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison

Brown, David S.; Touchton, Michael; Whitford, Andrew - In: World Development 39 (2011) 9, pp. 1516-1529

Summary Efforts to explain corruption have increased dramatically in recent years. The interest stems from the increasing weight economists assign to corruption when explaining economic growth. A great deal of the research focuses on how political institutions influence perceptions of...

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The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal

Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 19-41

Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...

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Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach

Gerring, John; Kingstone, Peter; Lange, Matthew; Sinha, … - In: World Development 39 (2011) 10, pp. 1735-1748

Crossnational statistical studies show a positive relationship between the length of time a country has been democratic and its economic performance. Old democracies grow faster, ceteris paribus, and also demonstrate advantages in some economic policies thought to be conducive to growth....

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The Impact of Political Dependence on Small Island Jurisdictions

Dunn, Leslie - In: World Development 39 (2011) 12, pp. 2132-2146

This paper examines the connection between political dependence and welfare and development of small island … advantages and the relative importance of each on the welfare and development within the island. It is shown that politically … dependent islands have achieved significantly higher levels of welfare and development with some of the reasons being due to the …

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Are Skilled Women More Migratory than Skilled Men?

Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Salomone, Sara; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 251-265

This paper empirically studies emigration patterns of skilled males and females. In the most relevant model accounting for interdependencies between women and men’s decisions, we derive the gendered responses to traditional push factors. Females and males do not respond with the same intensity...

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Shopping for Development: Multilateral Lending, Shareholder Composition and Borrower Preferences

Humphrey, Chris; Michaelowa, Katharina - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 142-155

This paper proposes two theoretical considerations regarding Multilateral development banks (MDBs). The first is that … by borrowing countries (Andean Development Corporation, CAF), and a third more evenly split between borrowers and … nonborrowers (Inter-American Development Bank, IADB). Qualitative and statistical analysis suggests that demand factors play an …

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Development Consequences of Armed Conflict

Gates, Scott; Hegre, Håvard; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1713-1722

’s Millennium Development Goals. We also examine the effect of conflict on economic growth. Conflict has clear detrimental effects …

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Self-Employment in the Developing World

Gindling, T.H.; Newhouse, David - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 313-331

This paper analyzes heterogeneity among the self-employed in 74 developing countries, representing two-thirds of the population of the developing world. After profiling how worker characteristics vary by employment status, it classifies self-employed workers outside agriculture as...

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