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Growth after war im Syria
Devadas, Sharmila; Elbadawi, Ibrahim; Loayza, Norman - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059829
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Growth after war in Syria
Devadas, Sharmila; Elbadawi, Ibrahim; Loayza, Norman - 2019
This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence … of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113903
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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development
Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009
Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273444
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India's economic growth: From socialist rate of growth to Bharatiya rate of growth
Virmani, Arvind - 2004
Paper reviews India's growth performance since independence. Phrases suchas "Hindu Rate of Growth," sometimes make a … attention on the wrong issue. There is nothing in the literature that suggeststhat this period of the "Hindu Rate of Growth" had … allows a statistically more accurate determination of thedifferent phases of Indian economic growth. The paper confirms that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807532
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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development
Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009
Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003915584
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The transmission of democracy : from the village to the nation-state
Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696903
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Poverty, Population, Inequality, and Development : The Historical Perspective
Chilosi, Alberto - 2010
Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality, backwardness) appear in a somewhat different light than in many current discussions, especially by sociologists, radical economists and political scientists. In the present paper the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134854
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087428
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New Institutional Economics and Cliometrics
Alston, Eric C.; Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The New Institutional Economics (NIE) has its early roots in Cliometrics. Cliometrics began with a focus on using neoclassical theory to develop and test hypotheses in economic history. But empirical consideration of economic and political development within and across countries is limited,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226121
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462666