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New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Middle Income Countries : Brokering Collective Action for Global Sustainable Development
Klingebiel, Stephan - 2016
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ventured an intriguing look into the future of development. In particular, the … conference highlighted the role of networks in overcoming challenges for sustainable development and reshaping international … Sustainable Development: networks and partnerships, on the one hand, and cooperation with MICs, on the other. As modes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976916
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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 for low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income countries for the sample period of 1996-2016 using the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The empirical results...
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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the … impact of both trends on long-run economic growth is studied, and results are discussed in light of relevant policy debate. …
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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 … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380593
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Institutions and economic performance : endogeneity and parameter heterogeneity
Eicher, Theo S.; Leukert, Andreas - 2006 - Draft 3.5, September 29 2005
The hallmark of the recent development and growth literature is a quest to identify institutions that explain a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439366
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Capital account policies, IMF programs and growth in developing regions
Bicaba, Zorobabel; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015
policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469677
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Chapter 69. Governance and Development
Baland, Jean-Marie; Moene, Karl Ove; Robinson, James A. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4597-4656). 2010
In this chapter, we discuss whether or not governance is an important source of variation in development experiences … literature on the political economy of development. Third, improving governance necessitates understanding the nature of the …. We draw four main conclusions. First, governance is best thought of a subset of institutions and as such emphasis on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025733
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The brain drain from developing countries : the brain drain produces many more losers than winners in developing countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2014
The proportion of foreign-born people in rich countries has tripled since 1960, and the emigration of high-skilled people from poor countries has accelerated. Many countries intensify their efforts to attract and retain foreign students, which increases the risk of brain drain in the sending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416347
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New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Middle-Income Countries : Brokering Collective Action for Global Sustainable Development
Paulo, Sebastian - 2016
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ventured an intriguing look into the future of development. In particular, the … conference highlighted the role of networks in overcoming challenges for sustainable development and reshaping international … Sustainable Development: networks and partnerships, on the one hand, and cooperation with MICs, on the other. As modes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985605