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answers to the economic crisis, the social problems of a deeply unequal world, and to resource depletion and rape. Culture has … drive of culture is the opposite. The creative industries show that the present course of economic development is bumping up … development addressing three fundamental structural problems: (1) In what technologies should a modernising, developmental …
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This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it … was followed by financial crisis, a period of turmoil marked by strong and active state intervention, then a period of … prolonged exceptional growth which can be considered, at least economically, a solution to a crisis. I draw two immediate …
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-imperial collapse and entering a period of relative political stability and economic growth, as did Latin America a century and a half …
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This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
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We investigate the historical roots of poverty, with particular reference to the experience of Africa during the twentieth century. Like the recent studies by Acemoglu et al (2001, etc) we find that institutional inheritance is an important influence on current underdevelopment; but in addition,...
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economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader … independent. The oft-reported significant cross-country relationships of many variables to economic growth may merely demonstrate …
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-imperial collapse and entering a period of relative political stability and economic growth, as did Latin America a century and a half …
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population growth and its social stability effects dissipated. These conclusions are based on a new dataset encompassing 39 … and other types of social unrest, population growth and a host of other variables. The paper first documents that county …-level variations in poor relief had a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful non-monotonic impact on population growth …
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countries. While admitting the non-linearity of economic development they claim that the developing countries make a transition …
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