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We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on …
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This paper examines the impact of increasing integration of the island economies of the South Pacific into expanding … international markets, particularly that of Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Since the 1980s, globalization of the world economy has … altered dramatically the volume and character of international resource flow. This has provided small island economies …
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development policies in selected Pacific island countries. Results from a simple growth accounting exercise show that factor … shows that foreign aid has a negligible effect on output and growth in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. …
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Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
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This report approaches current domains of development and tension within China. It was elaborated by students in the frame of a 'Task Force Seminar' in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It addresses the issues of...
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This paper makes an effort to trace the course of development thinking and associated development policy over the past six decades. Section I focuses on the early Post-War Consensus, with theory focused on extensions of classical dualism theory and policy concentrating on creating the...
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Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...
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zunehmenden Interdependenzen, so dass die Entwicklungspolitik konzeptionell auf einem sicheren Fundament sozialstruktureller … beitragen, die Anreizstrukturen in der Entwicklungspolitik und der Entwicklungspraxis zu reformieren – im Interesse der Armen …
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Dieser Beitrag beinhaltet eine modifizierte Fassung des Vortrags, der anlässlich der Verteidigung der Dissertation des Autors an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg am 18. November 2010 gehalten wurde. Das Diskussionspapier vermittelt einen thesenhaften Überblick über den...
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ordonomischer Beitrag zur Theorie der Entwicklungspolitik”, erschienen 2012 im Wissenschaftlichen Verlag Berlin (wvb). Aus diesem … Beitrag zur Theorie der Entwicklungspolitik”, published 2012 at wvb Berlin. Hence, the press statement formulates three …
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