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Wesselink, Bert

The directory of development organizations, listing 70,000 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, academic and research institutions, governments and the private sector.

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State

Charap, Joshua; Harm, Christian - 1999

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

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When is Trade Protection Good for Growth?

Minier, Jenny; Unel, Bulent - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2009

The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisinglyfragile, as shown in a number of other papers. After demonstrating this empiricalsensitivity, we address one possible explanation for these findings: that the relationshipis nonlinear. Following the endogenous...

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North-South Technology Spillovers : The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

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Aid Effectiveness and Limited Enforceable Conditionality

Scholl, Almuth - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical frameworkwith a conflict of interest between the donor … and the recipient government.Aid conditionality is modelled as a limited enforceable contract. We defineconditional aid … policy to be self-enforcing if, at any point in time, the conditions imposed on aid funds are supportable by the threat of a …

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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role ofExternal Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to thepresence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanenteffects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initialadvantage of a country as...

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Do Regional Systems ofInnovation Matter?

Fritsch, Michael - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2003

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical studies. Main elements of such an explanation are the specific problems of a division of innovative labor. Based on an outline of these issues the concept of a regional innovation...

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Education, Growth, and Riedistribution on the Presence of Capital Flight

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti; Chanda, Areendam; Ghate, Chetan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive politics in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...

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MAKING INTERNATIONALORGANIZATIONS MORE DEMOCRATIC

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> - 2005

World governance today is characterized by international organizationslacking democratic legitimacy and control by the citizens they claim to represent. Theyare also criticized for being inefficient. This leads to violent protests and to NGOs havinggreat influence. To address these problems, we...

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