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. The government is seen to produce a productive factor interpreted as infrastructure. Infrastructure is both nonrival and …
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process sustains it. This paper also supports the hypothesis that investment in infrastructure and fixed assets, which has … between different types of infrastructure leads to the formation of the core-periphery pattern. …
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Entwicklung der humanitären Situation in Subsahara-Afrika identifiziert und Handlungsableitungen getroffen, die Wege und … der gesamten Entwicklung ergeben, diskutiert. Der Schlüssel für eine wesentliche Reduzierung der globalen Hungerprobleme … selbst zu helfen, sind daher prioritär im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeit der Entwicklung zu betrachten. …
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This paper surveys the main issues and controversies in the economic literature on infrastructure in developing … countries. Section I reviews the evidence on the role of infrastructure in promoting economic growth. It is argued that …, although infrastructure may be more important for growth than other types of capital, the exact size and form of its effect is …
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The two-sector specific factor model is typically used in the theory of international trade where it helps to clarify the principle of comparative advantage. Instead, we use this model as explicit theoretical framework to explain major trends of long-run economic development. Combined with...
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The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
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The paper reviews the evidence of the impact of trade liberalisation on the economic performance of poor developing countries with respect to poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, the distribution of income between countries, trade and the balance of payments, and...
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The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
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We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...
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We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evi-dence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281378