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s. A simple growth accounting model suggests that advances in education at all levels, good governance, and …, which remains marred by problems related to weak governance as well as autocratic rule. Further, as in Estonia and Latvia …
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education, governance and institutions. We ask whether the EU perspective and NATO membership played a role. We discuss the … democracy and longer experience of democracy, lower levels of corruption, better governance, and freer press; (d) Poland … income per person, but was hampered by political divisions, path-dependent corruption and poor governance. During the global …
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On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease that was first recognized in China in late 2019. Among the primary effects caused by the pandemic, there was the dissemination of health preventive measures such as physical distancing, travel...
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infrastructure as part of the Berlin Process. We welcome these moves economic underdevelopment in the region is closely tied to … political fractures. Aside from resolving political conflicts, improved governance in the region will also be necessary. In … upgrading infrastructure and developing a much bigger and more competitive industrial base should be the priorities. While the …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … linear and the underlying non-linearity is contingent on existing infrastructural and governance levels. Second, evidence of …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance threshold of -1.210 and an infrastructure threshold of 2.583, indicating that countries with governance and … the transition variables (governance and infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5 …
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This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in some African countries and calculate pro-poor...
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In order to track progress in MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of ‘pro-poor growth’ have been proposed in the literature and used in applied academic and policy work. These measures, particularly the ones derived from the growth incidence...
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Many African countries have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years, yet their economic transformations display features that could constrain their future growth prospects. Patterns of urbanization without industrialization, rapid growth of low productivity jobs in the...
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The paper discusses the issue of labor force mobility in a broad sense, and analyses how changes in social security policy and the structure of the social safety net (SSN) affects different aspects of labor force mobility. The text is structured as follows: Introduction, then follows Chapter 2,...
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