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The analysis of policies to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty [FAST version]

Wilson, Edgar James - 2009

A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...

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Uneven development and the terms of trade: A theoretical and empirical analysis

Erten, Bilge - 2010

Despite the voluminous literature on North-South macroeconomic interactions and the key role of terms of trade variations in growth transmission from one region to another, a significant research gap persists for two reasons. First, there has been very little empirical work on testing of the...

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Why China grew: Understanding the financial structure of late development

Hersh, Adam S - 2011

This dissertation explores how economic institutions governing finance and investment have contributed to growth in reform-era China. Economic and political reforms transformed Chinas prior centrally-planned economy. Although reforms incorporated elements of market institutions and private...

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Structural incentives to overborrow and overlend: The international debt crisis in perspective

Sader, Frank - 1995

The emergence of the international debt crisis in the 1980s is typically explained through exogenous shocks to the global economic system, first generating excess liquidity and then creating conditions which render previously attractive lending operations unprofitable. Thus, the international...

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From survival activities to industrial strategies: Local systems of inter-firm cooperation in Peru

Tavara, Jose Ignacio - 1993

how these systems can foster local industrialization and reduce urban poverty in Peru. The theoretical argument builds …

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Capitalist regulation and unequal integration: The case of Puerto Rico

Benson, Jaime Eduardo - 1993

This dissertation postulates that as effect of the model of development adopted by Puerto Rican authorities since the late forties, Puerto Rico became a "Regional Armature" of U.S. intensive accumulation and monopolist regulation over the 1950-1980 period. The asymmetrical insertion of the...

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Banks, insider lending and industries of the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, 1813--1860

Lockard, Paul Andre - 2000

the successful industrialization of eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the Philadelphia region. Lamoreaux's model of …

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Immiserizing growth: Globalization and agrarian change in Telangana, South India between 1985 and 2000

Vakulabharanam, Vamsicharan - 2004

I examine the impact of policies toward agricultural globalization on growth patterns, distribution patterns …-oriented crops have declined between 1991 and 2000 (during the phase of globalization), the planted area and the output of these … output in the Telangana region of South India has been more than 4%, higher than much of the developing world during the same …

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Land and labor markets among paddy producers in the Nepalese Tarai

Bhandari, Ravi - 2001

A central concern of this study is to confront both neoclassical and Marxist interpretations of two "semi-feudal" institutions--bonded labor and sharecropping--which are regarded as either inert and inefficient, by neoclassical economists or as repressive and exploitative, by Marxists. Both...

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Agency problems in the capital markets and the employment relationship: The possibility of efficiency-enhancing institutional innovation: An empirical case-study

Laliberte, Pierre - 1997

In view of the prevalence of information asymmetry and incentive incompatibility problems, the market for capital and the employment relationship are shown to be prey to pervasive agency problems that make economic transactions subject to enforcement costs. The presence of these costs subverts...

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