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Addison, Tony; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2013

To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its economy. Ongoing globalization - in trade, finance, and technology - opens up new possibilities for structural transformation, but also new risks as Africa's integration with...

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Long-term effects of equal sharing: evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

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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Economic growth versus economic development

Dragoi, Doina - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 4 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11

The objective of this article is to approach the concepts of growth and economic development in order to highlight the essential aspects that differentiate them. These are fundamental concepts that define the economy of a nation and contribute for a better life for it. Economic growth does not...

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Chapter 15 National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal

Easterly, William - 2005

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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Institutions and FDI : evidence from developed and developing countries

Sabir, Samina; Rafique, Anum; Abbas, Kamran - In: Financial innovation : FIN 5 (2019) 8, pp. 1-20

This study investigates the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows using panel data … Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The empirical results confirm that institutional quality has a positive impact on FDI in all … stability, regulatory quality, rule of law, and voice and accountability for FDI inflows are greater in developed countries than …

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Country role models for development success: The case of Costa Rica

Trejos, Alberto - 2009

In this paper, I discuss the reasons for Costa Rica's economic performance over the last quarter of a century. Three complementary sets of policies (investments in human capital, careful stabilization, and an intelligent and aggressive integration into the world economy) explain the successful...

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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 telling comment and expose obscureeconomic data to a wider audience, but they can just as readily obscure reality byfocussing attention on the wrong issue. There is nothing in the...

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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Addison, Tony - 2015

Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...

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The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development : lessons for the post-2015 development agenda

Priyadarshi, Shishir; Biswas, Trineesh - 2014 - Manuscript date: 18 July 2014

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 supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between...

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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

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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