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Education in Post-Independent Eritrea – A Brief Description
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in … post-independent Eritrea. It also analyses educational finances, and challenges for development in the country and thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835622
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Does democracy cure a resource curse?
Korhonen, Iikka - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2004
In this paper we utilise a large and reasonably detailed dataset to show that a greater level of democracy in a country's political institutions can alleviate the widely known resource curse. Raw material abundance affects per capita growth negatively, an effect that seems to work through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419595
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Resource Rents and Economic Growth
Kaznacheev, Peter - Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and … - 2013
characterise the role of natural resources in economic development. They certainly do not set a positive tone for a constructive … stories of economic development among resource abundant countries. This report presents the argument that resource economies … superior results in economic growth and social development. To support that argument, we have used empirical evidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011220304
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Does Density Matter?
Ikeda, Peter Gordon Sanford - Lusk Center for Real Estate, Marshall School of Business - 2012
ideologies that are hostile to "unplanned", low - density development and that seek to promote high - density, pedestrian - and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251825
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252278
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Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises in the Czech Republic
Koudelková, Petra - In: Central European Business Review 2014 (2014) 3, pp. 31-37
The success of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is crucial for the development of the Czech economy. Czech SMEs … Government strategies and policies that aim to promote economic growth and business development in the Czech Republic. …
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What Do We Know about Microfinance at Macro Glance?
Alimukhamedova, Nargiza; Hanousek, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
contrast we aim to identify the impact on whole economies (economic growth, and financial sector development and reductions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201355
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Resource Rents and Economic Growth. Economic and institutional development in countries with a high share of income from the sale of natural resources. Analysis and recommendations...
Kaznacheev, Kaznacheev Peter - In: Research Papers (2013) December, pp. 31-31
the role of natural resources in economic development. They certainly do not set a positive tone for a constructive … stories of economic development among resource abundant countries. This report presents the argument that resource economies … superior results in economic growth and social development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206916
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Military Spending, Growth, Development and Conflict
Dunne, J Paul - Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, … - 2011
This paper makes a contribution to the debate on the economic effects of military spending using a large cross country panel data set for 1988-2006. As well as providing a relatively up to date analysis, sub groups are created that allow the analysis to focus on groups of countries at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922941
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The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century
Henriksen, Ingrid; Lampe, Markus; Sharp, Paul - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2011
the Danish dairy industry and, by implication, the growth and early development of the Danish economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364591