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How Gender Inequalities Hinder Development: Cross-Country Evidence.
Ferrant, Gaëlle - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011
This paper assumes that gender inequality hinders economic and human development: a one standard deviation change in … the Gender Inequality Index (GII) will increase long term income per capita by 9,1% and Human Development Index (HDI) by 4 …%. Gender inequality may be a explanation of economic development differences: 16% of the long term income difference between …
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Natural Resource Endowment: A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011
This paper deals with the implications of natural resources for the conduct of economic policies and the role and design of institutions in resource-rich countries. The paper briefly reviews the experience of a few resource-rich countries, highlighting the successes of those that have done well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853863
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Beyond the Overall Economic Downturn: Evidence on Sector-Specific Effects of Violent Conflict from Indonesia
Vothknecht, Marc; Sumarto, Sudarno - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of violent conflict on economic growth using micro-level data from Indonesia. We compile a panel dataset at district level for the period 2002-2008, and disentangle the overall negative economic effect of violent conflict into its sectoral components. Our results...
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Ley de Justicia y Paz, un balance de su primer lustro
Dario Valencia A, Germán; W, Mejía; Alberto, Carlos - In: PERFIL DE COYUNTURA ECONÓMICA (2010)
Resumen: El pasado 25 de julio de 2010, se cumplieron los primeros cinco años de la Ley de Justicia y Paz. Para algunos, constituye un avance muy significativo en términos de justicia transicional; para otros, sólo promesas incumplidas. En este contexto, de no pocos cuestionamientos y...
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La ayuda internacional al desarrollo: retórica y realidad
Rhenals Monterrosa, Remberto; Martínez, Luis Esteban - In: PERFIL DE COYUNTURA ECONÓMICA (2009)
Resumen: La ayuda externa al desarrollo ha sido un tema polémico y la evidencia empírica respecto a su eficacia es mixta. En este artículo se presenta una breve reseña de la literatura y se describe su comportamiento en las últimas cinco décadas. Pese a que muchos estudios muestran...
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strategie de developpement en amerique latine. l`insertion dans l`economie mondiale par la liberalisation et l`ouverture? une vision critique de la Ce
Saludjian, Alexis - UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA SEDE MEDELLIN - 2008
L´Amérique latine est-elle entrée depuis 2003 dans une nouvelle phase de croissance élevée et stable ? Les théories des néo-structuralistes de la CEPAL qui ont légitimé les politiques économiques en terme de stratégie de développement depuis 1990 semblaient le montrer avant la grave...
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Female labor force participation in developing countries
Verick, Sher - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) September, pp. 1-10
While women’s labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not …
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Entrepreneurship,Growth, Regional Growth Regimes
Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the … suggests that entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic development, and one that has long-run effects. …
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Should developing countries undervalue their currencies?
Schröder, Marcel - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
The Washington Consensus emphasizes the economic costs of real exchange rate distortions. However, a sizable recent empirical literature finds that undervalued real exchange rates help countries to achieve faster economic growth. This paper shows that recent findings are driven by inappropriate...
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The Greek Economic Structure in the 2000's: A Road to Crisis?
Reyes, Fidel Aroche - In: South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics 12 (2014) 1, pp. 35-64
been widely agreed that a number of signals conveyed the need to reconsider the long-run development strategy, but the … triggered a major crisis. The question is whether the economic structure by the early 2010's explains such development. This …
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