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Why have all development strategies failed in Latin America?

Rozenwurcel, Guillermo - 2006

After the Great Depression and throughout the rest of the twentieth century, Latin American countries basically approached economic development following two successive and quite opposed strategies. The first one was import substitution industrialization. The second was the so-called Washington...

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Economic development as a matter of political geography

Streb, Jorge M.; Druck, Pablo F. - In: Estudios de Economía 34 (2007) 1, pp. 5-20

Can limited government be a driving force of economic development? This idea goes back to Montesquieu, and is closely related to recent research in institutional economics. Measuring limited government with the Henisz political constraints index, and economic development with income per capita,...

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Structural Change and Economic Development in China and India

Valli, Vittorio; Saccone, Donatella - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 6 (2009) 1, pp. 101-129

The comparison of the periods of rapid economic growth in China since 1978 and India since 1992 markedly show different … backwardness" and some aspects of the "fordist model of growth". China had an anticipated and deeper structural change, spurred … penetration of its industrial products in the world market. However, a substantial part of China's exports in medium and high tech …

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Developing and Transition Economies in the Late 20th Century: Diverging Growth Rates, Economic Structures, and Sources of Demand

Rada, Codrina; Taylor, Lance - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2006

This study reviews the growth and development performance of developing countries in the latter part of the 20th century. Sustained growth among “successful” countries was accompanied by structural change in terms of output and labour share shifts, trade diversification, sustained...

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Integrating Economic and Social Policy: Good practices from high achieving countries

Mehrotra, Santosh - 2000

This paper examines the successes of ten 'high-achievers' - countries with social indicators far higher than might be expected given their national wealth. Their progress in such fields as education and health offers lessons for social policy elsewhere in the developing world. Based on...

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Root Causes of African Underdevelopment

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Center for Economics and Development Studies, Fakultas … - 2007

What is the root cause of Africa’s current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the legacy of extractive colonial institutions, or the fallout of malaria? A precise answer still eludes us. This paper investigates the relative contribution of these historical...

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The Productivity Gap between East and West Europe: What Role for Sectoral Structures during Integration?

Stephan, Johannes - EconWPA - 2004

Analysis into the sources of lower levels of national productivities between Central East European Economies and the European Union is scarce and lacks comparability. These sources are assessed by analysing the role played by sectoral structures. After providing a brief overview over comparative...

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Income per Capita, Health and Cross Country IQ: An International Comparison

Di Pietro, W. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 6 (2006) 2

Recently, for the first time, international data on IQ scores across countries have become available. The new data opens up the exciting possibility of using cross country analysis to study IQ and its determinants. One important potential determinant of IQ is income inequality. The purpose of...

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Economic development as a matter of political geography

Streb, Jorge M.; Druck, Pablo F. - In: Estudios de Economia 34, 1 Year 2007, pp. 5-20

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Economic Transition Phase II: Private Sector Development

Stern, Richard E. - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1997

This paper studies private sector development in transition economies. To address this issue, many economist have focused on the issue of privatization, assuming that privatization is a proxy for private sector development. But as the experience of countries such as Poland has revealed,...

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