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Inequality and schooling responses to globalization forces: lessons from history

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Proceedings (2006), pp. 225-248

Given the intensity of the current debate about the impact of globalization on brain drain in the Third World and … inequality in the First World, it might be useful to look at these forces during the first global century, ending in 1914. This … high-wage, labor-scarce overseas New World economies. It reviews the distribution impact everywhere in the Atlantic economy …

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The experience of development

Kelley, Allen C.; Williamson, Jeffrey G.; Chenery, Hollis B. - In: The American economic review 63 (1973) 2, pp. 459-468

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Relative price changes, adjustment dynamics, and productivity growth : the case of Philippine manufacturing

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Economic development and cultural change 19 (1971) 4, pp. 507-526

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Sources of growth methodology in low-income countries : a critique

Kelley, Allen C.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 87 (1973) 1, pp. 138-147

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Development (paradigm) failures

Hodler, Roland; Dreher, Axel - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 63-74

Over time, the international development community has advocated various development paradigms, but countries following these paradigms have often performed poorly. We provide an explanation for this poor performance. In our model, the political leader of a developing country chooses a policy...

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CORRUPTION AROUND THE WORLD: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL MODEL

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2004

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication...

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A computable general equilibrium model of Third-World urbanization and city growth : preliminary comparative statics

Kelley, Allen C.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Modeling growing economies in equilibrium and disequilibrium, (pp. 3-41). 1983

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Household saving behavior in the developing economies : the Indonesian case

Kelley, Allen C.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Economic development and cultural change 16 (1968) 3, pp. 385-403

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The limits to urban growth : suggestions for macromodeling Third World economies

Kelley, Allen C.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Economic development and cultural change 30 (1982) 3, pp. 595-623

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Comparative consumption patterns, the extent of the market and alternative development strategies

Fishlow, Albert; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Micro aspects of development, (pp. 41-80). 1973

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