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details of the various phases of development and the role thatgovernment and government monopoly has played in different …
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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. …
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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 …
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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within which official development assistance must operate and evolve if it is to remain useful. …
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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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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 …
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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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into the world economy) explain the successful trends, and can be thought of - at least in hindsight - as a development …
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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...
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