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Economic Gangsters : Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations

Fisman, Raymond - 2010

developing world of billions in aid. The calculating crook who views stealing and murder as just another part of his business …

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Health and Wealth : A Structural Model of Social and Economic Development

Fielding, David - 2004

The paper presents a model of social and economic development which relaxes some of the assumptions made in existing papers on the determinants of growth. In particular, the model allows for multidirectional causality between social and economic indicators. The model indicates that there are...

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Economic Development and Financial Instability : Selected Essays

Kregel, Jan A - 2014 - 1st ed.

, "IT" HAPPENED AGAIN: THE MINSKY CRISIS IN ASIA -- Chapter 11 FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION AND DOMESTIC POLICY SPACE: THEORY …

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Can Economic Growth Be Sustained? : The Collected Papers of Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami

Ruttan, Vernon W - 2011

. Induced Innovation Theory and Agricultural Development: A Personal Account -- PART II: PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN AGRICULTURE …, 1880-1960 -- CHAPTER 11. Social Science Knowledge and Institutional Change -- CHAPTER 12. Toward a Theory of Induced … Growth Theory and Development Economics: A Survey -- CHAPTER 15. An Emerging Agricultural Problem in High-Performing Asian …

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Resource Abundance and Economic Development.

Auty, R. M - 2001

Since the 1960s the resource-poor countries have grown much faster than the resource-rich ones. This reflects basic differences in the speed of industrialization and the nature of the political state that are rooted in the natural resource endowment. Most resource-rich countries experienced a...

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Empirics of Growth and Development

Durlauf, Steven N.; Kourtellos, Andros; Tan, Chih Ming - 2011

We survey the recent literature on growth empirics in this paper. Modern growth economics has led to a rich and wide-ranging empirical literature replete with many new methodologies and many new findings. Yet in comparing the modern empirical literature to the traditional growth accounting...

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Democracy, Volatility, and Economic Development

Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2005

Growth stability is an important objective - because development requires sustained increases in income, because volatility is costly for the poor, and because volatility deters growth. We study the determinants of average growth and its volatility as a two-equation system, and find that higher...

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Economic Growth, Exclusion and Human Development

Panda, Bhagirathi - 2011

This paper, discusses the situation in the front of growth, human development and exclusion in the theoretical framework of Gustav Ranis et al.(2004) along with its various implications for the north eastern region of India. This region falls in to the HD Lopsided category, as it experiences...

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Chapter 3. Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2014

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world … distances between populations, and document how such distances, relative to the world’s technological frontier, act as barriers …

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Causal Links between Financial Activity and Economic Growth : Empirical Evidence from a Cross-Country Analysis, 1970-1990

Graff, Michael - 2001

To clarify the causal links between financial activity and economic growth, a series of path models is estimated for a pooled sample of 93 countries between 1970 and 1990. A multi-wave 2SLQ-analysis shows that during the 1970's and 1980's finance was predominantly a supply-leading determinant of...

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