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Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological and economic standards of living of a population are very different concepts, they are linked and may empirically move together. If this is so, then cohort heights can also be...
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transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy … this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for … advances in finance for inclusive development. The analytical approach consists of first, situating issues of exclusive growth …
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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
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In recent years, a growing body of economic literature has focused on the phenomenon of the so-called middle-income trap (MIT). The term usually refers to countries that have experienced rapid growth and thus quickly reached middle-income status, but then failed to overcome that income range to...
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We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
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We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized … difficult to identify the true effect of foreign aid on development outcomes due to the presence of unobserved heterogeneity …
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The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing … opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 … recently published papers to provide recent information technology advances in finance for inclusive development. Retained …
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phenomena. Moreover, he paid more attention than most development economists to the Malthusian demographic dimension of poverty …The theory of economic development was an exception to Paul Samuelson's claim of being a "generalist" in economics. It … topic, and discussed at length, sometimes critically, the empirics of development and the theories and policies put forward …
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The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing … opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review … about 180 recently published papers to provide recent information technology advances in finance for inclusive development …
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