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Deep economic integration and state capacity : a mechanism for avoiding the middle-income trap?
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018
Exiting the middle-income trap entails costly improvements in state capacity. That deep economic integration induces powerful actors to support increasing state capacities remain underresearched. Here we ask: Under what conditions can deep economic integration yield increases in state capacity?...
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Islam, Inequality and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2015
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine and in turn … presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior from the … redistribution featuring direct income transfers in return for safe passage to conduct trade. A commitment problem, however, rendered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027218
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Islam, Inequality and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2014
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine and in turn … presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior from the … redistribution featuring direct income transfers in return for safe passage to conduct trade. A commitment problem, however, rendered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045114
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Islam, inequality and pre-industrial comparative development
Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2014
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine and in turn … presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior from the … redistribution featuring direct income transfers in return for safe passage to conduct trade. A commitment problem, however, rendered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716022
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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524841
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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524877
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Population sorting and human capital accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2021
’s human capital accumulation function in the periphery are incorporated. I show how migration affects the inter … help increase the per-capita human capital levels, if free uncontrolled migration leads to a reduction in human capital …
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Chapter 23. Labor and Credit Networks in Developing Economies
Munshi, Kaivan - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1223-1254). 2011
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first...
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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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Toward a Microeconomics of Growth
Burgess, Robin - 2016
What drives growth at the microeconomic level? Burgess and Venables divide the factors that determine a location's growth performance into two groups, 1st advantage and 2nd advantage. The term 1st advantage refers to the conditions that provide the environment in which new activities can be...
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