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Strategies for Structural Transformation in Countries in South and South-West Asia

Freire, Clovis - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …

This paper approaches inclusive development in South and South-West Asia through the framework of structural …

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Economic development in South and East Asia: empirical examination of East Asian Development Model

Shrestha, Prakash Kumar - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 20 (2013) 2, pp. 1-28

In this paper, a comparison is made of the level of economic development between South Asia and East Asia, and the East … Asia in general is far behind East Asian countries where some distinctive features of the development process followed in …, policymakers in South Asia should take heed of some of these features despite changing circumstances. …

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE EUROPEAN SUPER-PERIPHERY: EVIDENCE FROM THE WESTERN BALKANS

Bartlett, Will - In: Economic Annals 54 (2009) 181, pp. 21-44

This paper argues that the conflicts that afflicted the Western Balkan region in the 1990s pushed the countries into the European ‘super-periphery’, characterised by deindustrialisation and high unemployment, ethnic and regional fragmentation, political turmoil, and instability. Integration...

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - CESifo - 2015

This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...

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Development divide vs digital divide – cross country study

Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper presents most recent estimates on the field of cross national digital gaps, in terms of application new information and communication technologies. The author proposes a way of measurement of the digital gaps among countries. The methodology is mainly based on the taxonomy principles,...

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A Revisit of the East Asian Development Experiences in the Context of South Asia

Prakash Kumar Shrestha Ph.D. - Nepal Rastra Bank

This paper compares the level of economic development in South Asia and East Asia, and explores the features of East … Asian Development experiences and existing situation in South Asia. Several development indicators such as per capita income …, human development index and millennium development goals' indicators reveal that South Asia is far behind many East Asian …

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A Revisit of the East Asian Development Experiences in the Context of South Asia

Prakash Kumar Shrestha Ph.D. - Nepal Rastra Bank - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756172

Culture, Diffusion, and Economic Development

Harutyunyan, Ani - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of cultural...

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The Nexus of Financial Development and Economic Growth Across Developing Economies

Okuyan, H. Aydin - 2022

The relationship between financial development and economic growth has been discussed in the literature, but there is no consensus on it. This study aims to examine the relationship between financial development and economic growth in terms of developing countries. The data of 19 developing...

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Chapter 3. Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2014

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world’s technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...

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