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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration
Ahsan, Quamrul - 2005
The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...
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The Political Economy of Corruption and and the Role of Financial Institutions
Hainz, Christa; Boerner, Kira - 2005
In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political systems. This is surprising from a political economy perspective, as a majority of the people generally suffers from high corruption levels. Our model based on the fact that...
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FDI, Regulations and Growth
Busse, Matthias; Groizard Cardosa, José Luis - 2006
The paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. We argue that countries need a sound business environment in the form of good...
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Financial Liberalisation, Bureaucratic Corruption and Economic
Blackburn, Keith; Forgues-Puccio, Gonzalo F. - 2006
We study the effect of international financial integration on economic development when the quality of governance may … follows: (1) corruption is always bad for economic development, but its effect is worse if the economy is open than if it is … closed; (2) the incidence of corruption may, itself, be affected by both the development and openness of the economy; (3 …
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The role of smes for development: a literature review
Duarte, Nelson - 2004
lead us to look at them as an important development agent in any society. Most of times, firms are seen as a black box on … what concerns to development however the measures taken by them, entrepreneurial strategies, and entrepreneurship actions …, have influence in the development theatre. At the same, not only the SMEs as a group of firms (industrial sector) must be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318747
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Regional dimensions of infant mortality rate in Brazil, 1980-2000
Barufi, Ana; Haddad, Eduardo; Paez, Antonio - 2010
Development can be understood from many perspectives. Among those, the one proposed by Amartya Sen states that a … development policy should aim at expanding the freedom of individuals, and this goal can be achieved by the expansion of … development and as the object of study. The Government should guarantee the provision of health services, as they consist in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332301
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Territorial cohesion and regional development - case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Osmankovic, Jasmina; Somun, Rabija - 2010
Territorial cohesion and regional development - case of Bosnia and Herzegovina In paper we analyzed territorial … cohesion and regional development in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1995 to 2010. In the context this theme we analyzed …
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Alternative models of rural growth and development: The case of wine production of VQPRD wine in the Naousa and Amynteon regions in Greece
Pitoska, Electra; Lazarides, Themistokles - 2010
in the countryside, encourage the development of new professional activities (like agro tourism, wine tourism e.t.c.) and …
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Innovation systems and regional clustering: the diffusion of knowledge for sustainability issues
Santos, Rita; Leal, Walter; Mirra, Evando - 2010
The innovation systems perspective is primarily concerned with the knowledge flow and diffusion and its positive impact of stimulating economic growth. In innovation systems observed at the regional level there is a tendency of technologically dynamic production to become spatially concentrated...
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Territorial Cooperation and socio-economic development in the Old EU , New EU and Non EU
Topaloglou, Lefteris; Cupcea, Victor; Kallioras, Dimitris; … - 2012
Territorial cooperation, taken as collaboration "beyond national boundaries", among administrative bodies and/or political actors, generally offers the ground for functional cooperation towards problem-solving and challenge-tackling, along with the exploitation of the local and regional...
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