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"Close" vs. "Strategic" integration with the world economy and the "market friendly approach to development" vs. an "industrial policy"
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
Abstract As Mr. Barber Conable observes in his Foreword, the World Development Report 1991 "synthesises and interprets the lessons of forty years of development experience" (p. iii). In view of the World Bank's leading role in development financing for poor countries around the globe over much...
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Foreign direct investment, development and the new global economic order. A policy brief for the South
Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Josephine Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
, draws attention to the broad political context in which national policies are formulated, and multilateral discussions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109162
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Some Lessons from Korea's Industrialization Strategy and Experience
Romana, Sta.; L, Leonardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We look at Korea's industrialization strategy and experience from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Three elements of the Korean industrial development and structural change are discussed: 1) its outward orientation and export push, 2) its climb up the ladder of comparative advantage, and 3) its...
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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world's poorest countries in the 1960s, joined the ranks of First World economies in little over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow...
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How did East Asia grow so fast? Slow progress towards an analytical consensus
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
Although in the post-World War II period as a whole, developing countries have made substantial economic and industrial progress, during the last decade or so, many of them, particularly in Latin America and Africa, have been in an acute economic crisis . As a consequence, these countries have...
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Economic liberalization and constraints to development in sub-Saharan africa
Sundaram, Jomo Kwame; Arnim, Rudiger von - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2008
This paper critically reviews the impact of globalization on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1980s. The large gains expected from opening up to international economic forces have, to date, been limited, and there have been significant adverse consequences. FDI in SSA has been largely...
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Globalization and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Sundaram, Jomo Kwame; Schwank, Oliver; Arnim, Rudiger von - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2011
This paper critically reviews the impact of globalization on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1980s. The large gains expected from opening up to international economic forces have, to date, been limited, and there have been significant adverse consequences. Foreign direct investment in...
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The state and industrialisation in India: successes and failures and the lessons for the future
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
Abstract Among the non-socialist developing countries, the Indian economy has long been regarded as being a classical case of heavy state intervention. In the eyes of the powerful and influential neo liberal critics of the country's economic development, particularly the Bretton Woods...
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Global economic trends, development and social policy at Copenhagen plus five
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
in Copenhagen in 1995. What policies at the national and international level will be most helpful in this respect? The … of incorrect policies, or are there more fundamental flaws from the perspective of developing countries, with respect to …, instability of economic growth and government fiscal policies. Women, in particular, are adversely affected by macro …
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