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Are we there yet? Time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290007
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Labor surplus revisited
Ranis, Gustav - 2012
development. Yet, even as at given technologies labor markets have not cleared, neo-classical economists have rejected the notion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369085
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917048
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China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the world economy: Engines of growth?
Nayyar, Deepak - 2008
This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India, Brazil and South Africa, for developing countries situated in the wider context of the world economy. It examines the possible impact of their rapid growth on industrialized countries and developing countries,...
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Engineering Growth: Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017
This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615894
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Efficiency, Inefficiency and the MENA Frontier
Christopoulos, Dimitris; McAdam, Peter - 2015
suggests that in addition to economic indicators, political and social ones play a key role in development and frontier … for related studies of development technical efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605802
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Liberalization with Endogenous Institutions: A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Reform in Africa, Asia, and Europe
Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen; Maertens, Miet - 2009
Thirty years ago, a vast share of the poor and middle income countries were heavily state-controlled. The effects of the liberalizations in the 1980s and 1990s differed strongly between regions in Africa, Asia and Europe. This paper first documents these differences in refirm effects in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313308
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The Environment, Life Expectancy and Growth in Overlapping Generations Models: A Survey
Dugan, Anna; Prskawetz, Alexia; Raffin, Natacha - 2022
It is widely accepted that environmental and demographic changes will significantly influence the future of our society. In recent years, an increasing number of studies has analyzed the interlinkages among economic growth, environmental factors and a specific demographic variable, namely life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815295
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Eight strategies for development in comparison
Priewe, Jan - 2015
The article provides a broad-based overview on competing development strategies and the economic performance of … developing countries, mainly since the year 2000. Four traditional mainstream development strategies are discussed (Washington … outward development with export-led growth, industrialisation or growth with predominant primary goods exports, foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304515
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Unlucky or bad? Economic policy and economic growth
Osborne, Evan - 2003
Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data to determine the extent to which policy choices help or...
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