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How Rich Countries Became Rich and Why Poor Countries Remain Poor : It’s the Economic Structure...Duh!

Felipe, Jesus - 2010

Becoming a rich country requires the ability to produce and export commodities that embody certain characteristics. We classify 779 exported commodities according to two dimensions: (1) sophistication (measured by the income content of the products exported); and (2) connectivity to other...

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Chapter 13 Income distribution and development

Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000

This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the paper identifies five areas that will command...

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Distribution and Development : A New Look at the Developing World

Fields, Gary S. - 2015

Inequality: A Review of the Empirical Evidence -- The Measurement of Poverty -- Does Economic Growth Reduce Absolute Poverty? A … -- The Distributional Effects of Economic Growth -- The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality -- Economic Growth and … Review of the Empirical Evidence -- The Meaning and Measurement of Income Mobility -- Growth and Income Mobility: Some …

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Environmental quality, public debt and economic development

Fodha, Mouez; Seegmuller, Thomas - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 57 (2014) 4, pp. 487-504

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Vote-buying and growth

Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008

impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show … that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty as taxed wealthy people buy votes from poor people. We then show …