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Marginalisation in the Context of Globalisation: Why Is Africa so Poor?
Hagen, Rune Jansen - In: Nordic Journal of Political Economy 28 (2002), pp. 147-179
Africa is the poorest region the world, and appears to be slipping further behind. This essay explores and systematises the literature that deals with why this is so. Four major lessons are suggested. The first is that the history and geography of Africa constitute impediments to economic...
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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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Wither The Economics of Agricultural Development?
Roumasset, James - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2010
In spite of healthy demand for a renaissance in economic policy for agricultural development, the academic supply response is found wanting. The infusion of public economics into the economics of agricultural development, which thrived during the 1970s and 80s, has stagnated due to the lack of...
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Cognitive Sinergy as Determinant of Poverty Reduction
Bustos, William Prieto - UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE COLOMBIA - 2012
The following document describes an experimental methodological design implemented to test the cognitive synergy hypothesis regarding poverty reduction proposed by Boiser (2010). The cognitive synergy hypothesis refers to social, cultural accumulation altogether with informal and formal...
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Is the Triple Helix Model Suitable to Approach Low Density Regions Competitiveness? Insights from a Portuguese Case Study
Ferreira, João J. M.; da E. Marques, Carla Susana; … - 2014
approach and organise public policy and actors’ strategy oriented to shape and nurture emerging and fragile innovation systems … innovation support organisations and firms, the emerging interface institutions, institutional framework, as well as policy …
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Vertical diversity and equilbrium growth
Das, Satya P. - Indian Statistical Institute - 2004
diversity is condutive to growth. As the main innovation, communication gap is introduced among workers. It is then shown that …
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Scale effects in Schumpeterian models of economic growth
Dinopoulos, Elias; Thompson, Peter - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999) 2, pp. 157-185
Early models of Schumpeterian growth incorporate scale effects predicting that large economies grow faster than small economies, and that population growth causes accelerating per capita income growth. An absence of clear empirical evidence for these scale effects has led some researchers to...
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Engines of growth: Education and innovation
Stadler, Manfred - 2012
The paper presents a dynamic general-equilibrium model of education, quality and variety innovation, and scale … separate R&D sectors. In the balanced growth equilibrium education and innovation appear as in-line engines of growth and …-invariant growth. We consider endogenous humancapital accumulation in an educational sector and quality and variety innovation in two …
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Engines of growth: Education and innovation
Stadler, Manfred - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper presents a dynamic general-equilibrium model of education, quality and variety innovation, and scale … separate R&D sectors. In the balanced growth equilibrium education and innovation appear as in-line engines of growth and …-invariant growth. We consider endogenous humancapital accumulation in an educational sector and quality and variety innovation in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955000
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Education, Sectoral Composition and Growth
Kaboski, Joseph K. - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 168-182
with less unexplained growth. The theory distinguishes between three different sources of education gains: (1) supply …
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