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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2011
a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were …-possibility frontiers and flourished in the technological paradigm that characterized the agricultural stage of development. The lack of … development. Consistently with the theory, the empirical analysis establishes that (i) geographical isolation prevalent in pre …
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Economics Department, Williams College - 2011
a signi.cant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were …-possibility frontiers and flourished in the technological paradigm that characterized the agricultural stage of development. The lack of … development. Consistently with the theory, the empirical analysis establishes that (i) geographical isolation prevalent in pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370952
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Understanding the Resource Impact Using Matching
Aliyev, Ilkin - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2011
We investigate the resource impact on economic growth using matching. Using a nonparametric minimum-distance matching method, we match the countries according to their observable characteristics, and estimate the relative growth rates of each matched pair. This way we are able to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371036
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The New Model of Foreign Aid Drawn from the Experiences of Japan and the United States
Ranis, Gustav; Kosack, Stephen; Togo, Ken - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011
potential advantage of being able to bring its own historical experience in development to bear. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371092
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The Public Finance and the Economic Growth in the First Portuguese Republic
Ferraz, Nuno; Duarte, António Portugal - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2014
The end of the 19th century was marked by several events which were extremely important to Portugal. The consequences of these events would later be responsible for the fall of the Monarchy and, thus, for the birth of the Republic. The first Republic was officially proclaimed on the 5th October...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208166
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ECONOMIC GROWTH OF SINGAPORE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:Historical GDP Estimates and Empirical Investigations
Sugimoto, Ichiro - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
academics and graduate students interested in development and empirical economics. …
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Crecimiento económico y desarrollo humano
Filippo, Armando Di - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2002)
end, the author compares growingpatterns and development styles and how we can explain and understandthem. …
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El desarrollo y el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo
Lorente, Luis - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2002)
.___________ABSTRACT:The National Development Plan includes many good initiatives, but the generalvision of the problems to be solved is, essentially … in the potential benefits of modernizationand economic development. Some possible solutions are discussed. …
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América Latina en la encrucijada
Santos, Theotonio Dos - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2002)
El artículo realiza un análisis tendiente a explicar la evolución que hatenido América en los últimos años que ha generado un proceso dedesestructuración de sus esfuerzos industrializadores iniciados en los añostreinta. De hecho para llegar a examinar los últimos veinte años,...
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Brasil como horizonte: mayor ingreso y mayor crecimiento económico para Colombia
Quevedo, Ortíz; Humberto, Carlos; David, Salazar Juan - UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE - CIDSE - 2014
La comparación de la estructura productiva de Colombia con la de Brasil, la economía más desarrollada de Latinoamérica, revela los posibles desarrollos sectoriales de Colombia que tendrían mayor impacto sobre la integración económica intersectorial y, por consiguiente, la generación de...
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