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Albert Hirschman and his controversial research report
Bianchi, Ana Maria - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2011
During the early nineteen sixties, Albert Hirschman negotiated with the International Bank of Reconstruction and … controversy between the IBRD staff and Hirschman. One of the major points of disagreement was the latter´s refusal to employ the … technique of cost-benefit analysis, then very popular at the WB, as a measure of the success of a project. Hirschman claimed …
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Rethinking Asian Drama
Nayyar, Deepak - 2018
Gunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama in 1968, a work which made important analytical contributions to our understanding of development but was deeply pessimistic about Asia's future prospects. Since then, contrary to Myrdal's expectations, Asia's development has been remarkable, although...
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The 1949 World Bank mission to Colombia and the competing visions of Lauchlin Currie (1902 - 93) and Albert Hirschman (1915 - 2012)
Sandilands, Roger J. - In: History of economic thought and policy 4 (2015) 1, pp. 21-38
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Albert O. Hirschman and the structuralist-monetarist debate in Latin America
Bianchi, Ana Maria - In: Research in the history of economic thought and methodology 34 (2016) 2, pp. 101-122
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A Conversation with Irma Adelman
Adelman, Irma; Zilberman, David; Kim, Eunice - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 1-16
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Peter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development
Vasquez, Ian - In: Econ Journal Watch 4 (2007) 2, pp. 197-212
Peter Bauer was a pioneer in development economics and his contributions to the field have been vindicated by the collapse of central planning. Through most of his career, however, Bauer was marginalized by the economics profession. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, economists frequently...
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Beyond capital fundamentalism : Harrod, Domar and the history of development economics
Boianovsky, Mauro - 2015 - Second draft (December 2015)
(Lewis, Hirschman, Rostow and others) were aware that Harrod's and Domar's growth models addressed economic instability based …
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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Abstract This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward...
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Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the World Bank World Development Report 2006
Elson, Diane - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 35-59
This contribution examines how gender equality features in the World Bank's World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, focusing on its conceptual framework, use of empirical evidence, and policy recommendations. It concludes that despite acknowledging that liberalization and...
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Economic growth versus economic development
Dragoi, Doina - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 4 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11
The objective of this article is to approach the concepts of growth and economic development in order to highlight the essential aspects that differentiate them. These are fundamental concepts that define the economy of a nation and contribute for a better life for it. Economic growth does not...
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