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Dierences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross- country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...
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The paper presents most recent estimates on the field of cross national digital gaps, in terms of application new information and communication technologies. The author proposes a way of measurement of the digital gaps among countries. The methodology is mainly based on the taxonomy principles,...
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This paper compares the level of economic development in South Asia and East Asia, and explores the features of East … Asian Development experiences and existing situation in South Asia. Several development indicators such as per capita income …, human development index and millennium development goals' indicators reveal that South Asia is far behind many East Asian …
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The paper provides quantitative estimates of the productive capacities of the countries in the Asia- Pacific region and … Asia and the Pacific 2011 and details the methodology used to create the productive capacity index. It finds that, except … from the region’s developed countries and emerging developing economies, the majority of the countries in the Asia …
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Building productive capacities is a top priority for least developed countries to promote development and graduate from the status of least developed country. This paper discusses the challenges and the opportunities for these countries to build their productive capacities. It argues that the...
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This paper approaches inclusive development in South and South-West Asia through the framework of structural …
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In this paper, a comparison is made of the level of economic development between South Asia and East Asia, and the East … Asia in general is far behind East Asian countries where some distinctive features of the development process followed in …, policymakers in South Asia should take heed of some of these features despite changing circumstances. …
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This paper argues that the conflicts that afflicted the Western Balkan region in the 1990s pushed the countries into the European ‘super-periphery’, characterised by deindustrialisation and high unemployment, ethnic and regional fragmentation, political turmoil, and instability. Integration...
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The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
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This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
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