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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/10011300734
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Terms of trade, foreign direct investment, and development : a case of Intra-Asian "Kicking Away the Ladder"?
Wacker, Konstantin; Großkurth, Philipp; Lakemann, Tabea - 2013
some stylized facts about the Asian development experiences and the theoretical and empirical background for our question … concerning the relationship of FDI and terms of trade in the development context. From here, we argue that South and East Asia … FDI. Different endowments in human capital provided a breeding ground for these differing development experiences. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241542
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A model of diversification and growth in open developing economies
Agosin, Manuel R.; Retamal, Yerko - In: Structural change and economic dynamics : SC+ED 58 (2021), pp. 455-470
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648722
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How useful is the theoretical and empirical growth literature for policies in the developing countries?
Rao, Bhaskara; Cooray, Arusha - 2008
This paper examines a recent view of Pritchett (2006) that there is a wide gap between the theoretical and empirical growth literature and the policy needs of the developing countries. Growth literature has focussed on the long term growth outcomes but policy makers of the developing countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523566
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Desired fertility and children born across time and space
Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2013
With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359657
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Pre-industrial and post-war economic development : is there a link?
Burkett, John P.; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis G. - 1997
-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504438
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : a note on evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523138
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Comparative determinants of quality of growth in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017
. The results are timely and relevant for the post-2015 inclusive and sustainable development agenda. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638886
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408491
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Urbanisation in developing economies : building cities that work
Venables, Anthony - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 5 (2018) 1, pp. 91-100
argues that coordination failure can create multiple equilibria and divergent paths of development, some in which cities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876190