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The Enigma of Mobile Money Systems
MARISCAL, Judith; FLORES-ROUX, Ernesto M. - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2010) 79, pp. 41-62
In this paper we argue that the success of mobile banking models represents an enigma in terms of their replicability to other countries. These models offer the opportunity to diminish the financial exclusion suffered by the poor by offering access to credit, savings, and transfers, which are...
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Political risk as a determinant of Southern European FDI in neighboring developing countries
Jiménez, Alfredo - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 47 (2011) 4, pp. 59-74
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009316918
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Agricultural trade and development : a value chain perspective
Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015
The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in...
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Potato importance for development focusing on prices
Salmensuu, Olli - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 3, pp. 1-14
This paper studies potato prices and consumption in the progress of economic development. Potato status tends to evolve from a luxury to a normal and, lastly, to an inferior good. In the developed world, where the potato thrived and became a food for the poor, prices of the inferior potato...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520141
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The return of the prodigy son : do return migrants make better leaders?
Mercier, Marion - 2013
of democracy in his country during his tenure. This effect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …
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Economic resilience in developing countries : the role of democracy in the face of external shocks
Trabelsi, Mohamed Ali; Ahmed, Salah - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661080
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Democracy and growth in pre-industrial countries
Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos - In: Brazilian journal of political economy 37 (2017) 1, pp. 88-107
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Democracy and militarization in developing countries : a panel vector autoregressive analysis
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2020 - This version: 17.08.2020
This study examines the dynamic relationship between democracy and the military in more than 40 developing countries … from 1990 to 2017. We investigate the dynamic interaction between democracy and military institutions using a panel vector … autoregressive model and impulse response functions as well as variance decomposition analyses. We show that democracy plays a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542722
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Credit growth, current account and financial depth
Ekinci, Mehmet Fatih; Erdem, F. Pınar; Kılınç, Zübeyir - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401470
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Credit growth, current account and financial depth
Ekinci, Mehmet Fatih; Erdem, F. Pinar; Kilinc, Zubeyir - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 16/18, pp. 1809-1821
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