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Colombia has some environmental and ecologicalcharacteristics specific for the neotropic, whichmake it specific and unique. However, developmentmodels applied are against these characteristics.This article shows how governmental policies donot recognize characteristics which are inherentto...
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This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among … investigation that brings forth evidence on the importance of natural resource endowment type on growth or, more appropriately, lack … growth than a resource endowment that is agricultural. The robustness of this result is tested across a number of growth …
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This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development...
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The Great Famine of Ireland from 1845-51 ranks as one of the most lethal of all time, claiming approximately one eighth of the country’s population. Utilizing Famine Relief Commission reports to develop a micro-level dataset of blight severity, I find that in the short run, districts more...
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The main purpose of this paper is to underline the downfalls of neoclassical growth theory. The narrow and artificial …
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I argue that state-ownership and state-management of oil on behalf of the Iraqi people is not conducive to democracy and inconsistent with the principles of free market. I also argue that it can adversely affect economic development and might further impoverish the average Iraqi citizen. To...
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African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a thorough reappraisal of the sector. What are less well understood, however, are the drivers that reallocate scarce human and physical resources across occupations and space, and...
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This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
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development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and …
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species as bio indicators we derive first empirical results. In sum, one still may conclude that indeed economic growth is … interpreted as a hint that economic growth is not necessarily related to losses of biodiversity. With good governmental …
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