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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development : lessons for the post-2015 development agenda
Priyadarshi, Shishir; Biswas, Trineesh - 2014 - Manuscript date: 18 July 2014
This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …
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Lights, camera...income! : estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means, and lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2014
In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...
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The heterogeneous relationship between income and inequality : a panel co-integration approach
Flechtner, Svenja; Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius - 2019
We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co …-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and post-tax income inequality; second, we take into account country …-tax income inequality,but no such relationship for post-tax income inequality. Moreover, we find estimates on the country level …
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Innovation at the World Bank : selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005
Grawe, Roger - 2013
The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty … Bank focusing on dominant development paradigms, client and stakeholder relationships and the organization's operational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202213
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Modeled interdependencies between intellectual capital, circular economy and economic growth in the context of bioeconomy
Nedelea, Alexandru-Mircea; Mironiuc, Marilena; Huian, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 20 (2018) 49, pp. 616-630
findings confirm the positive influence of research-development funding and of fiscal freedom on intellectual property rights …
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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 is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010
effect between culture and institutions. -- culture ; institutions ; development ; growth …
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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
positively to economic development (as measured by income and TFP per capita and patent intensity) even after controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124