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Aid project proliferation and absorptive capacity

Roodman, David - 2006

Much public discussion about foreign aid has focused on whether and how to increase its quantity. But recently aid quality has come to the fore, by which is meant the efficiency of the aid delivery process. This paper focuses on one process problem, the proliferation of aid projects and the...

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Migration taxes and human capital formation: Some implications for development

Kar, Saibal - 2007

Use of migration tax as an instrument for financing development expenditure in poorer countries has received renewed attention recently and is evolving as an important subject of research in development economics. This paper discusses a related issue where the revenue collected by taxing skilled...

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Entrepreneurship in economic development

Naudé, Wim - 2008

economic development lacks a ‘general theory’ of entrepreneurship, which could encompass a variety of development experiences … surveys the progress with the purpose of distilling the outlines for a more general theory of entrepreneurship in economic … implications from the economic literature suggest that a case for government support exists, and that this should focus on the …

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Wealth distribution, lobbying and economic growth: Theory and evidence

Haile, Daniel T. - 2005

-monotonic. In particular, the theory predicts a non-monotonic relation between the level of education, taxation and growth. Our …

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Measuring inequality without the Pigou-Dalton condition

Chateauneuf, Alain; Moyes, Patrick - 2005

in the theory of risk – does not permit one to make a distinction between the views embedded in the differentials …

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What money can't buy: The relevance of income redistribution for functioning levels

Lelli, Sara - 2004

This paper relates Amartya Sen’s capability approach to the literature on equivalence scales. Synthetic indicators of well-being are constructed by adjusting individual incomes for differences in functionings. An exploratory comparative application to Italian and Belgian data illustrates the...

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Asymmetric information and the market structure of the venture capital industry

Hyytinen, Ari; Toivanen, Otto - 2001

In this paper we study a horizontally differentiated market for financial in-termediation and develop a simple explanation for concentration in the financial intermediation industry. We show that under asymmetric information, if the demand for funds is not perfectly elastic, the heterogeneity of...

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Distribution of intellectual property rights and the development of technology suppliers

Paija, Laura - 2003

The importance of customer relationships as a source of suppliers’ innovative activity and competence accumulation has been widely recognised. The more a relationship involves collaboration and creative, non-standardised customer solutions, the more there is potential for the development of...

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The inter-institutional distribution of power in EU codecision

Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2004

This paper analyzes the a priori influence of the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers (CM) on legislation of the European Union adopted under its codecision procedure. In contrast to studies which use conventional power indices, both institutions are assumed to act...

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Structural reforms in the EU and the political myopia in economic policies

Alho, Kari E.O. - 2006

The paper considers economic reforms in the EU using an economic-political model which captures the possible myopia in economic policies, and analyses reforms in taxation, the welfare state, and in the labour and product markets. We show that high taxes and an extensive welfare state are likely...

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