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economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify … the "carrier" of development focusing on the systematic examination of the post-war reconstruction periods, and setup a … growth theory that have appeared in the nineties. The "real carrier of economic development" matches to the "human capital …
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This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
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Ghana’s economy was identical to South Korea’s economy in the 1960s. Since the 1970s, however, Ghana’s economy has substantially lagged. To explain Ghana’s poor long-run economic growth, we build a neoclassical growth model to primarily examine the role of Ghana’s barriers to physical...
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alternative to conventional theories of economic development based on the historical pathway of development exhibited by developed … highlight the timeliness of pursuing this approach and its comparison with the East Asian model of development with emphasis on …, inclusive growth and economic development …
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economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify … the "carrier" of development focusing on the systematic examination of the post-war reconstruction periods, and setup a … growth theory that have appeared in the nineties. The "real carrier of economic development" matches to the "human capital …
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Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...
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Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …
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This paper analyzes the conditions under which, within a two-sector endogenous growth model with human and physical capital accumulation but without R&D-driven disembodied technological progress, we can observe an ambiguous effect of population growth on economic growth, as empirical evidence...
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