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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.
D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966369
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Prologue
Lin, Justin Yifu - Princeton University Press
, significantly reduce poverty, and become middle- or even high-income countries in the span of one or two generations. Interwoven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862624
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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321503
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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries
Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …- and long-run impact on poverty through various channels. It surveys spending trends and analyzes the effect of growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752685
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The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off
Lin, Justin Yifu - Princeton University Press
, significantly reduce poverty, and become middle- or even high-income countries in the span of one or two generations. Interwoven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681120
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Poverty, Development, and Ecological Services
Barbier, Edward B. - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 2 (2008) 1, pp. 1-27
critical ecosystems and habitat in developing countries. But geographical targeting and other means of tackling poverty more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696390
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Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development
Bulte, Erwin H.; Damania, Richard; Deacon, Robert T. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
The negative correlation between resource endowments and GDP growth remains one of the most robust findings in the empirical growth literature, and has been coined the “resource curse hypothesis”. The policy consequences of this result are potentially far reaching. If natural resources are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755035
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Can the West Help the Rest? A Review Essay of Sachs’ The End of Poverty and Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden
John, Arielle; Storr, Virgil Henry - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 25 (2009) Fall 2009, pp. 125-140
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Mortality as an Indicator of Economic Success and Failure
Sen, Amartya - 1995
Amartya Sen, the Nobel economist, explains why mortality should, or could, be an indicator of economic success. While mortality is not in itself an economic phenomenon, the influences that increase or reduce mortality often have distinctly economic causes. Consequently there is a prima facie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005551367
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Die neuen Indizes des Bericht über die menschliche Entwicklung 2010
Kockläuner, Gerhard - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 7 (2013) 3, pp. 121-133
Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The paper introduces …
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