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In Search of Larger Per Capita Incomes: How To Prioritize across Productivity Determinants?
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016
This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535762
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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016
This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457783
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Territorial cooperation and socio-economic development in the Old EU , New EU and Non EU
Topaloglu, Lefteris; Cupcea, Victor; Kallioras, Dimitris; … - 2012
strategy is linked to transnational territorial cooperation, especially through its third objective, aiming at inclusive growth … research tools of the TERCO Project, which stands for 'European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517885
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How do governments become great? : ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128322
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Who really leads development?
Andrews, Matt - 2013
studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies …'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187197
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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda
Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013
This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192401
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912825
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El monetarismo y el neo-estructuralismo
Isaza, Francisco Giraldo - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)
inevitablemente a la crisis, desempleo, y enfrentamientos sociales.El modelo según el cual operan actualmente dichas economías es …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945877
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Réflexions sur l'économie cubaine.
Herrera, Rémy - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2005
This Working Paper deals with the progresses, but also with the deficiencies, of the Cuban revolution in the economic field, until the recent de-dollarization. It underlines its economic challenges at the beginning of the XXIst century, as well as its internal forces and external opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220170
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On Economic Growth and Development
Colombatto, Enrico - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion (CERGAM), … - 2006
The paper offers a subjectivist approach to economic growth and an institutional view of development. In particular …, the term development regards the prevailing rules of the game and their effects on the key variables for economic activity … to take off: property rights and productive entrepreneurship. And growth is deemed to be the result of favourable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535165