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Effective Aid : How Democracy Allows Development Aid to Improve the Quality of Life

Kosack, Stephen - 2007

Research into foreign aid has mostly focused on its ability to affect economic (i.e., GDP per capita) growth. Conclusions have been mixed. I consider aid's effectiveness differently: by its ability to improve quality of life. I find that, though aid does not affect quality of life in the...

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Rich people poor countries : the rise of emerging-market tycoons and their mega firms

Freund, Caroline L. - 2016

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Sharing the Benefits of the Data Economy for Economic Development

Arbache, Jorge - 2020

This paper discusses the relationship between the data economy and economic development and examines the benefits and challenges for emerging economies. In particular, it examines the market concentration and offers some reasoning for why we should expect that the data economy may end up...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Trade Liberalization : A Viable Answer for Economic Development?

Lee, Yong-Shik - 2007

Promotion of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade liberalization on both global and regional levels has been considered to be beneficial for the economic development of developing countries. Current WTO rules support regional trade liberalization and prohibit certain trade-related...

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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states

Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010

This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. …

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Development in Africa

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018

The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …

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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de - 2015

The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...

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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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The middle-income trap - definitions, theories and countries concerned : a literature survey

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2016

In recent years, a growing body of economic literature has focused on the phenomenon of the so-called middle-income trap (MIT). The term usually refers to countries that have experienced rapid growth and thus quickly reached middle-income status, but then failed to overcome that income range to...

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