Showing 1 - 10 of 7,470
transformation. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the lack of structural transformation in African cities, drawing … on the Deals and Development framework. It argues that limited structural transformation in African cities is due to the … nature of state-business relations in the cities, where manufacturing and tradeable services firms in the formal sector face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053974
reviews industrial and trade policies, macroeconomic stabilization and institutional development in Latin American countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495369
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001600287
It is well known that at the end of the last and during the present century the Indian economy performed much stronger than during the first decades after independence. In common discourse this improved performance is usually linked to the change in policy framework which was introduced in 1991...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110919
Recognizing the need to formulate policy strategies for the changes it faces, Myanmar started a multifaceted reform process in 2011. But speeding up development requires a multipronged but more coherent strategy targeted at strong and resilient growth, employment generation and, ultimately,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305293
The present research aims to analyze two archetypal 20th century development strategy cases: Brazil's and South Korea's. During the last century, both countries had been experiencing catching up processes, but by the 1980's Brazil started to lag behind while South Korea began to technologically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550805
This paper studies the persistent effects of China’s Great Wall, built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), on contemporary regional ethnic diversity and economic development. Using rich township-level and individual-level data combined with spatial regression discontinuity strategy, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307291
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790503