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Cause of Death and Development in the US
Hansen, Casper Worm - 2014
big medicine experienced greater increases in life expectancy, population, and total GDP after its onset, whereas per … capita GDP remained largely unchanged. Together the evidence suggests that the rise in life expectancy had an insignificant …
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Robotization : Incentives for Development and Impact on Employment
Shumskaya, Katharina - 2021
At the present stage of automation and robotization in the mining and manufacturing industries, there is a decrease in the demand for labor due to technological solutions that reduce the demand for labor in developed countries. The study put forward a hypothesis about a negative correlation...
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Investing in Ontario's Infrastructure for Economic Growth and Prosperity
Haider, Murtaza; Crowley, David; DiFrancesco, Richard J. - 2013
creation, GDP, and tax revenue in the Province of Ontario using an input-output model. The paper documents the results of a … estimated $10 billion in employment income and increase the provincial GDP by an estimated $18.5 billion. This investment would …
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Preparing Developed Democracies for Long-Run Economic Slowdowns
Burgess, Matthew; Carrico, Amanda; Gaines, Steven D.; … - 2021
Economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, following the Industrial Revolutions, was much faster than in preceding centuries. This unprecedented global growth coincided with the global proliferation of democracy, with some evidence for bidirectional causation. Macroeconomic forecasts have...
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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative economic development : common misconceptions
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2018
The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941341
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Interpersonal diversity and socioeconomic disparities across populations : a reply to Rosenberg and Kang
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2018
hump-shaped effect of interpersonal population diversity on population density in the year 1500 is statistically … elementary statistical errors. In fact, the hump-shaped effect of diversity on population density is even more pronounced in this … for which population data are available (i.e., the 10,000BCE to 1500CE timeframe). …
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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative economic development : common misconceptions
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956347
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New research study on technology patents progress in developing EU countries
Jemala, Marek - In: International journal of agile systems and management : … 10 (2017) 2, pp. 116-136
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Building Bridges or Breaking Bonds? The Belt and Road Initiative and Foreign Aid Competition
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2019
China's renewed prominence is the most important development in international relations in the 21st century. Despite longstanding rhetoric of its own “peaceful rise”, China is increasingly viewed as a long-term strategic competitor, especially in the United States. Foreign aid is one arena...
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Towards an objective-driven system of smart labor migration management
Holzmann, Robert; Pouget, Yann - 2010
This policy note offers motivation as well as game plan how to achieve a coherent and mutually beneficial labor migration system. It argues that migrant workers may importantly contribute to economic growth and development both in sending and receiving countries if they find the enabling...
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