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operations, and a significant investment in human capital development programs. By addressing the root causes of the problem, the …, the government can create a more favourable environment for economic growth and development while also improving the lives …
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African religion on development in Benin and Haiti. …
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institutional development. In late 19th-century China, elites were afraid of the introduction of Western science and engineering and …
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We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...
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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 …
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This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region s development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …
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This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …
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Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …
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