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How do governments become great? : ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128322
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Who really leads development?
Andrews, Matt - 2013
studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies …'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187197
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The road to gender-equitable growth : a state-level analysis of social reproduction in the U.S.
Sinha, Aashima - 2023
Building on a Kaleckian-structuralist macroeconomic growth model this paper examines the impact of the interaction … between labor market gender equality and social reproduction (SR) or care provisioning, on economic growth across U.S. states … relationship between women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) and state's per-capita growth rate across these regimes. The …
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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth …-country distribution. Extensive sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across … specifications, time periods, and country samples. In addressing causality, we find, first, significant growth effects of cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274179
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth …-country distribution. Extensive sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across … specifications, time periods, and country samples. In addressing causality, we find, first, significant growth effects of cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920009
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The historical fertility transition : a guide for economists
Guinnane, Timothy - 2010
-run economic growth. Prior to the transition, women bore as many as eight children each, and the elasticity of fertility with …, and discuss an agenda for future work. -- Fertility transition ; long-run growth ; Malthusian models ; quantity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664560
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What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century : The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018
Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916983
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Strategy when creative destruction accelerates
Govindarajan, Vijay; Srivastava, Anup - 2016
Life is short. That's never been more true for corporations today. An analysis of all 29,688 firms that listed from 1960 through 2009, divided into 10-year cohorts, reveals that newly listed firms in recent cohorts fail more frequently than did those in older ones. Creative destruction is...
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What accounts for the US ascendancy to economic superpower by the early 20th century : the morrill act - human capital hypothesis
Ehrlich, Isaac; Cook, Adam; Yin, Yong - 2018
Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880789
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Political economy and governance
Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017
This paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda …. The consensus that good sector governance improves the developmental impacts of extractive resources exploitation is … premised on the understanding that institutions matter for development. However, there is no straightforward answer to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595705