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The Current State and Prospects of Economic Development in the EU's EaP Countries

Sharipov, Ilkhom; Lisnyak, Sergey - In: CES Working Papers 8 (2016) 1, pp. 163-170

Economic development is one of the main aims of economic policy in many countries around the world. By strengthening … the process of economic development, we can bring the state on the path of sustainable growth and ensure stability and … security in it. The paper analyzes the main indicators of socio-economic development in the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries …

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Country role models for development success: The case of Costa Rica

Trejos, Alberto - 2009

into the world economy) explain the successful trends, and can be thought of - at least in hindsight - as a development …

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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Aid effectiveness: Politics matters

Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - 2007

The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

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Industrial Structure and Aggregate Growth

Peneder, Michael - 2002

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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....

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Seven replies to the critiques of Modern Money Theory

Tymoigne, Éric - 2021

Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...

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Economic growth versus economic development

Dragoi, Doina - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 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 … increasing the added value of goods and services obtained within the sectors of a country's economy. The economic development … quality living conditions. Also, economic development can create opportunities in the field of employment and environmental …

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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