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Chapter 17 The Economics of Migrants' Remittances

Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006

, as we explain below. Finally, the relationship between remittances and inequality appears to be non …-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …

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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005

Grawe, Roger - 2013

The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty … Bank focusing on dominant development paradigms, client and stakeholder relationships and the organization's operational …

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"Disarticulation" as a constraint to "wage-led growth" in dual economies

Aboobaker, Adam - 2019

neglected issues of development and structural transformation. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to this gap … developing country contexts with extre me income inequality and correspondingly polarized patterns of consumption. This argument … is supported by a review of, amongst other, Kalecki's writing on development and a two-sector model building on Razmi et …

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Untangling the quality of governance from the level of income: Are Sub-Saharan African countries governed well?

Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - 2005

institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic …

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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2010

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development: Lessons for the post-2015 development agenda

Priyadarshi, Shishir; Biswas, Trineesh - 2014

This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …

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