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Growth, income distribution, and poverty: A review

Bigsten, Arne; Levin, Jörgen - 2001

This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither does it find any systematic link from fast growth to...

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From conflict to reconstruction: Reviving the social contract

Addison, Tony; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001

Contemporary civil wars are rooted in a partial or complete breakdown of the social contract, often involving disputes … over public spending, resource revenues, and taxation. A feasible social contract gives potential rebels something akin to … after war must rebuild the social contract. The chances of success increase if the economy can achieve broadbased growth. If …

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Understanding the Silicon Valley phenomena

Aoki, Masahiko; Takizawa, Hirokazu - 2002

This paper analyzes the ‘Silicon Valley model’ as a novel economic institution in the domain of technological product system innovation such as computers. We focus on the information structural relationship as well as governance relationships between venture capitalists and a cluster of...

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Which types of aid have the most impact?

Mavrotas, George - 2003

The paper uses an aid disaggregation approach to examine the impact of different types of aid on the fiscal sector of the aid-recipient country. It uses time-series data on different types of aid (project aid, programme aid, technical assistance and food aid) for Uganda, an important aid...

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Digital divide and growth gap: A cumulative relationship

Lee, Youngsoo; Oh, Jeonghun; Seo, Hwanjoo - 2002

This paper, using a cumulative growth model and a catch-up model, verifies the cumulative relationship between IT investment and economic growth, and then examines whether this relationship enlarges the differences in the economic growth among OECD countries. We observe the following results:...

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Descriptive and prescriptive analyses of aid allocation: approaches, issues and consequences

McGillivray, Mark - 2003

Studies of the inter-recipient allocation of aid may be categorized threefold. First, there are those which attempt to explain the observed allocation of aid. Second, there are those which seek to describe or evaluate the allocation of aid against normative criteria. Third, there are those which...

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Globalization, global public bads, rising criminal activity and growth

Bloom, David E.; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001

By globalization we mean an external shock; specifically an increased world demand for various goods (or bads) including the products and services which are illegal. We analyse the effects of these shocks on growth and capital stocks by utilizing two different models. The first examines an...

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Warlord competition

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2001

Warlords compete for turf that provides them with rents and ‘taxable’ resources but they can also offer a semblance of security within their respective territories. This article first examines two economic models of warlord competition. Because such competition takes place through the use of...

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Convergence clubs in cross-country life expectancy dynamics

Mayer-Foulkes, David - 2001

I model life expectancy in terms of physical and human capital and technology, the fundamental economic variables described by economic growth theories. For concreteness, the Solow model and a convergence club growth model by Howitt and Mayer (2001) are used as examples. I discuss how a multiple...

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Globalization, technology transfer, and skill accumulation in low-income countries

Mayer, Jörg - 2001

Globalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to advanced technologies and provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise per capita income. This paper shows that low-income countries as a group have in fact substantially increased the GDP-ratio of...

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