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The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development : lessons for the post-2015 development agenda
Priyadarshi, Shishir; Biswas, Trineesh - 2014 - Manuscript date: 18 July 2014
This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380593
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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 … developing country contexts with extre me income inequality and correspondingly polarized patterns of consumption. This argument … is supported by a review of, amongst other, Kalecki's writing on development and a two-sector model building on Razmi et …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024613
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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?
Addison, Tony - 2015
been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396968
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Aid to Africa : the changing context
Addison, Tony; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
within which official development assistance must operate and evolve if it is to remain useful. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225330
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Long-term effects of equal sharing: evidence from inheritance rules for land
Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020
What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....
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Economic growth versus economic development
Dragoi, Doina - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 4 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11
The objective of this article is to approach the concepts of growth and economic development in order to highlight the … increasing the added value of goods and services obtained within the sectors of a country's economy. The economic development … quality living conditions. Also, economic development can create opportunities in the field of employment and environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297373
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Chapter 15 National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal
Easterly, William - 2005
The new growth literature, using both endogenous growth and neoclassical models, has generated strong claims for the effect of national policies on economic growth. Empirical work on policies and growth has tended to confirm these claims. This paper casts doubt on this claim for strong effects...
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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Significance of development stage theory for explaining industrial growth pattern between Asian NICs and selected advanced economies
Nam, Chang-woon - 2002
determined by the industrial development triggered by changes in domestic demand, increases in FDI, intensive innovation efforts … examines the applicability of the development stage theory for explaining the growth dynamics of industrial production in Asian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409015
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New patterns of structural change and effects on inclusive development : a case study of South Africa and Brazil
Greenstein, Joshua - 2015
This study explores the question of structural change and inclusive development in South Africa and Brazil. Using … some ways contradictory to received models of development and distribution, and, further, that redistribution alone is … insufficient in creating inclusive development if the patterns of structural change do not sufficiently involve people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465459