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Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged...
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Development, social justice and the limits of public policy -- Why has …, private enterprise and development -- Democracy and development : diagnosing poor governance -- An agenda for Pakistan …
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Graft and corruption is considered to be one of the biggest threats to development. Several studies had shown the …
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This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors …
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We present an analysis of the effects of foreign aid on economic development when the quality of governance may be … may be summarized as follows: (1) corruption impedes economic development and compromises the effectiveness of aid … programmers; (2) the incidence of corruption may, itself, be affected by both the development process and the donation of aid; (3 …
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Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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A growing body of research, based on large-scale international comparisons, has associated socioeconomic development … comparing the differing socioeconomic development experienced by Chile and Argentina between 1983 and 2013. Specifically, the … paper inquires whether the greater socioeconomic development experienced by Chile was actually related to greater legitimacy …
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Zusammenfassung Hinsichtlich der rechtlichen Lage und der quantitativen Bedeutung der Kriegsdienstverweigerung nimmt die Bundesrepublik Deutschland eine Sonderrolle ein. Zunächst werden die juristischen Grundlagen der Kriegsdienstverweigerung beschrieben und die Anzahl der Anträge auf...
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issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
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The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …
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