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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and poverty in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal

Asongu, Simplice - In: Journal of economic surveys 30 (2016) 4, pp. 736-755

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Tax sparing, FDI, and foreign aid : evidence from territorial tax reforms

Azémar, Céline; Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2016

The governments of many developing countries seek to attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) through the use of tax incentives for multinational corporations (MNCs). The effectiveness of these tax incentives depends crucially on MNCs' residence country tax regime, especially where the...

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On tyrannical experts and expert tyrants

Deaton, Angus - In: The review of Austrian economics 28 (2015) 4, pp. 407-412

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Expertise and its discontents

Lomasky, Loren E. - In: The review of Austrian economics 28 (2015) 4, pp. 413-417

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Gendering of commercial justice - experience of self-employed women in urban Tanzania

Tillmar, Malin - In: Journal of enterprising communities : people and places … 10 (2016) 1, pp. 101-122

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Transfers in the gravity equation : the case of foreign aid

Kruse, Hendrik W.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2016

This paper presents a theoretical gravity model of trade in which foreign aid is considered as a transfer instead of being part of the trade cost, as it has been previously done in the related literature. We argue that the usual specification leads to invalid out-of-sample predictions, biased...

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Coherence and contradictions in Danish migration-development policy and practice

Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 28 (2016) 1, pp. 62-75

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Conditional linkages between iron ore exports, foreign aid and terrorism

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and terrorism from a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. The following main findings are established. First, it is primarily in the countries with the highest...

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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...

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