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POVERTY, POPULATION, DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Chilosi, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The object of the paper is to place the present issues of world poverty, development, demographic change into proper …

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The African tragedy: the effect of democracy on economic growth

Khodaverdian, Saeed - In: Empirical Economics 62 (2021) 3, pp. 1147-1175

explain the former by changes in the size of the population and the latter by changes in the age structure of the population …

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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration

Ahsan, Quamrul - 2005

The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...

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Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment

Cooray, Arusha; Gaddis, Isis; Wacker, Konstantin M. - 2012

We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...

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"Disarticulation" as a constraint to "wage-led growth" in dual economies

Aboobaker, Adam - 2019

neglected issues of development and structural transformation. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to this gap … is supported by a review of, amongst other, Kalecki's writing on development and a two-sector model building on Razmi et …

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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to economic development …

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Two views on institutions and development: The grand transition vs. the primacy of institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …

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Untangling the quality of governance from the level of income: Are Sub-Saharan African countries governed well?

Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - 2005

institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic …

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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altındağ, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010

democracy. The results suggest that periods of high unemployment and joblessness would hinder the development of democracy. …

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Barriers to exit

Chong, Alberto; León, Gianmarco - 2006

Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a crosssection of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and brain-drain...

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