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Isaza, Francisco Giraldo - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)

El presente ensayo constituye la segunda parte del trabajo titulado Las Teorías del Desarrollo en América Latina", cuya …. Precisamente por esto último es común en nuestro medio creer que no existen otras posibilidades distintas de desarrollo, ante lo … ese modelo por otra alternativa de desarrollo que permita cambiar esa lamentable realidad. El modelo existe pero el …

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Lauchlin Currie y el desarrollo colombiano

Acero, Héctor Fernando López - In: REVISTA CRITERIO LIBRE (2011)

haya realizado en el país por elaborar una teoría del desarrollo fundamentada en la experiencia del atraso, la pobreza y la … crecimiento económico con el desarrollo social y han contribuido al ordenamiento urbano evitando que la marginalidad en las … ciudades sea mucho mayorque en otras urbes de países de la región que tienen un desarrollo similar al nuestro. De ahí que …

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Unified Growth Theory: Engines of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations

Galor, Oded - 2024

What sparked humanity's leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified Growth Theory explores the evolution of societies over the entire course of human history. It uncovers the universal wheels of change that have governed the journey of humanity,...

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Unified Growth Theory: Roots of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations

Galor, Oded - 2024

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Quantifying the Impact of Red Tape on Investment: A Survey Data Approach

Pellegrino, Bruno; Zheng, Geoffery - 2023

An important strand of research in macro-finance investigates which factors impede enterprise investment, and quantifies their aggregate cost. In this paper, we make two contributions to this literature. The first contribution is methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate...

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Inequality and aggregate savings in the neoclassical growth model

Foellmi, Reto - 2010

Within the context of the neoclassical growth model I investigate the implications of (initial) endowment inequality when the rich have a higher marginal savings rate than the poor. More unequal societies grow faster in the transition process, and therefore exhibit a higher speed of convergence....

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Land inequality and the origin of divergence and overtaking in the growth process: Theory and evidence

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2003

This research suggests that the distribution of land within and across countries affected the nature of the transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Land abundance, which was beneficial in early stages of development, generated...

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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?

Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Economically highly developed countries are mostly democratic. But does this association constitute a causal relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that paves the way for democratization? This paper gives an...

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness: Do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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Re-orient? MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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