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Globalization and the rise of mega-cities in the developing world
van der Ploeg, Frederick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2008
Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical specialization. Second, we argue that Friedman pays...
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Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World
van der Ploeg, Rick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021
Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical specialization. Second, we argue that Friedman pays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316592
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Foreign aid and subnational development : a grid cell analysis
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This Version: March 2018
We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized grid cells with a spatial resolution of 0.5 decimal degrees latitude x longitude as the unit of investigation. The proposed grid cell approach solves a number of endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796164
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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398380
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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437089
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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440614
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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951641
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Participative Political Institutions and City Development 800-1800
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138204
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Overurbanization and its Relation to Economic Growth for Less Developed Countries
Graves, Philip E.; Sexton, Robert L. - 2011
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Aid, growth and devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision …-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same time, decentralization has reverse effects, e.g., through coordination … consider how both anti-poverty instruments - financial assistance and decentralization - work together. …
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