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What Does Brunei Teach Us About Using Human Development Index Rankings as a Policy Tool?

Michael, Bryane - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2015

The Bruneian Government has set an ambitious target to achieve a top 10 ranking on the UNDP’s Human Development Index … co-ordinating development policies and for monitoring progress against a wide range development goals using only one …

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Aid effectiveness for poverty reduction: lessons from cross-country analyses, with a special focus on vulnerable countries

GUILLAUMONT, Patrick; WAGNER, Laurent - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2014

Introduction: focus of the paperFollowing the adoption of the MDG, particularly the first one that is to reduce poverty by half between 1995 and 2015, numerous studies have examined how external aid can contribute to their achievement. The formula "doubling aid to reduce the poverty by half"...

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Do transfer costs matter for foreign remittances? A gravity model approach

Ahmed, Junaid; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

Using bilateral data on remittance flows to Pakistan for 23 major host countries, in the first study of its kind, the authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on remittance flows is negative and significant; suggesting...

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El acompañamiento institucional en el desarrollo del sector cafetero colombiano

Losada, Óscar Hernán Cerquera; Yacué, Cristian … - In: REVISTA FINANZAS Y POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA (2015)

attempts to determine the importance of the Federation in the development of this sector, as well as its role throughout the 20 …

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Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.

CASTRO, Rui; COEN-PIRANI, Daniele - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2014

We study the evolution of educational attainment of the 1932–1972 cohorts using a calibrated model of investment in human capital with heterogeneous learning ability. The inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education quality over time, and...

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Entrepreneurial activity and economic development: The shape of the relationship

Larin, Alexander; Tarunina, Elena - In: Applied Econometrics 37 (2015) 1, pp. 3-26

The paper investigates how entrepreneurial activity depends on economic development, measured by GDP per capita. The …

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Is Privatization Related With Macroeconomic Management? Evidence From Some Selected African Countries.

George, Emmanuel; Odejimi, Deborah; Matthews, Oluwatoyin; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Has macroeconomic management succeeded in making privatization promote growth in Africa? What are the probable strategies that should accompany the privatization reform process to promote growth in Africa? To what extent has the privatization process succeeded in attracting foreign direct...

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Stabilization and Structual Adjustment in Mozambique: An Appraisal

Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

up, and structural transformation on the export side remains to be addressed. Moreover, a coherent development strategy … dependency continues. Accordingly, fundamental development challenges lie ahead. …

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Aid Effectiveness for Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Cross‑country Analyses, with a Special Focus on Vulnerable Countries

Guillaumont, Patrick; Wagner, Laurent - In: Revue d’économie du développement 22 (2014) HS01, pp. 217-261

Cross?country econometric studies of aid effectiveness are numerous and often criticized. Relying on results of those which seem the most relevant and robust, this paper argues that aid is leading to poverty reduction, in particular in vulnerable countries. It examines the main methodological...

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Risk, Shocks and Development

Gunning, Jan Willem - In: Revue d’économie du développement 22 (2014) HS01, pp. 35-49

but have only poor risk coping mechanisms at their disposal. Nevertheless development is typically analyzed as if it … assumed that agents have access to perfect assets. This paper argues that the peripheral position of risk in the development … literature is a dangerous mistake: risk and shocks should be a central concern for development economists. JEL Classification: D …

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