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Reorienting health aid to meet post-2015 global health challenges : a case study of Sweden as a donor
Yamey, Gavin; Sundewall, Jesper; Saxenian, Helen; … - In: Oxford review of economic policy 32 (2016) 1, pp. 122-146
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579568
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Corruption and development, revisited
Balboa, Jenny D.; Takenaka, Shinji - 2010
Graft and corruption is considered to be one of the biggest threats to development. Several studies had shown the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421175
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LDC export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy": What roles for tourism linkages?
Honeck, Dale - 2012
advantage and development potential for the majority of LDCs, via its extensive upstream and downstream linkages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326801
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013539
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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262276
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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies
Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003
Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263207
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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265602
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ICT use in the developing world: an analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration
Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … reversion for computer use, particularly in developed economies. Financial development, either measured as bank lending or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267851
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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Entrepreneurship in developing countries
Ács, Zoltán J.; Virgill, Nicola - 2009
This paper reviews the literature on economic development from import substitution to export promotion. It then … examines the literature on entrepreneurship and economic development creating a framework for promoting development through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270609