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Introduction to Law and Development : Balancing Principles and Values
Szwedo, Piotr; Peltz-Steele, Richard J.; Tamada, Dai - 2020
This book examines the concept of ‘development’ from alternative perspectives and analyzes how different approaches influence law. ‘Sustainable development’ focuses on balancing economic progress, environmental protection, individual rights, and collective interests. It requires a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101856
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528503
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Access to Infrastructure and Human Development : Cross-Country Evidence
Sapkota, Jeet - 2015
Despite extensive policy discussion, limited empirical literature is available concerning the impacts of infrastructure on human development. Furthermore, major infrastructure services, such as transport and energy, are missing in the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137311
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Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Trade Liberalization : A Viable Answer for Economic Development?
Lee, Yong-Shik - 2007
Promotion of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade liberalization on both global and regional levels has been considered to be beneficial for the economic development of developing countries. Current WTO rules support regional trade liberalization and prohibit certain trade-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221684
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Facilitating Economic Development in the World Trading System : Proposal for Development Facilitation Tariff (DFT) and Development Facilitation Subsidy (DFS)
Lee, Yong-Shik - 2007
While the objectives of the World Trade Organization include promotion of economic development for developing countries … stabilizing world trade and inhibiting state interference with world trade, they also have significant implications for tariff and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221685
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Development and the World Trade Organization : Proposal for the Agreement on Development Facilitation and the Council for Trade and Development in the WTO
Lee, Yong-Shik - 2013
Facilitating economic development of developing countries has become an important agenda in the world trading system …, currently represented by the World Trade Organization, will depend on bridging these gaps between developed and developing … regulatory reform to promote development in the current system. The paper also proposes organizational reform in the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050671
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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states
Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010
paper is to scrutinize existing international indicators, in particular the World Bank's Doing Business (DB) indicators and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660846
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Foreign aid and subnational development : a grid cell analysis
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This Version: March 2018
We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized … reveal that World Bank foreign aid projects contribute significantly to grid cell economic activity measured by night …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796164
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On the empirics of institutions and quality of growth : evidence for developing countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
We explore a newly available dataset on quality of growth to investigate the effect of institutions on growth quality in 93 developing countries for the period 1990 to 2011. Quality of institutions is measured in term of political risk. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Ordinary Least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407924
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Exploring the role of export product quality and economic complexity for economic progress of developed economies : does institutional quality matter?
Shahzad, Umer; Madaleno, Mara; Dagar, Vishal; Ghosh, … - In: Structural change and economic dynamics : SC+ED 62 (2022), pp. 40-51
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