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Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to...
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differential level of development across countries over time. To that end, it attempts to construct a Development Quality Index … disease burden, etc. It demonstrates that relative influence of institutions varies across stages of development. …
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development across countries. This technique estimates first order derivatives for every country allowing a deeper look into the … impact of institutions on development. The preliminary cross-country findings show that (i) institutional quality positively … and significantly increases development quality; and (ii) results remain 'robust' for different model specifications and …
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-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …
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development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density …
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This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
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development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards … that, thresholds for financial development benefits of financial globalisation may also be contingent on initial levels of … financial development. For this purpose, we examine marginal, threshold and net effects of financial globalisation on financial …
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Purpose - We investigate if financial development benefits from financial globalisation are questionable until certain … Foreign Direct Investment Inflows as a percentage of GDP (FDIgdp) whereas financial development entails dynamics of depth … globalisation on financial development is negative, there is a positive marginal effect, such that at a certain level of FDIgdp (or …
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This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …
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