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Darras, Marc - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 1 (1998) 1, pp. 108-114

Environmental decisions do not exist as such, but are always embedded in a development process. Therefore, decisions …

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"Rubber will not keep in this country": Failed development in Benin, 1897-1921

Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

the development of ``communal'' plantations, but these suffered from labor scarcity, a weak state, limited information …

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“Stay with Us”? The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras

Gagnon, Jason - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap in the migration literature concerning the impact of emigration on sending countries. This paper attempts to narrow that gap by investigating whether the large and intense...

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Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence

Knack, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This chapter surveys the major contributions to the rapidly growing empirical literature on social capital and economic performance, focusing primarily on cross-country approaches. It first addresses characteristics of governments that fall under broad definitions of the term social capital. It...

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Who Benefits from Growth? Disadvantaged workers from growing regions

Mitchell, Bill - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 2, pp. 239-255

Despite Australia enjoying unprecedented growth since the early 1990s, pockets of socio-demographic and regional disadvantage persist. Studies of disadvantaged workers often focus on regions experiencing employment decline; this paper instead explores how disadvantaged workers have fared in...

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Unemployment Rate Dispersion in Melbourne: The ‘Regional’ Dimension

Dixon, Robert; Mahmood, Muhammad - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 3, pp. 269-286

In this paper we examine unemployment rate dispersion across the (statistical) regions in the Melbourne metropolitan area. We find that the level of dispersion is positively correlated with the unemployment rate in all the regions taken together and that the ‘elasticity’ of dispersion with...

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I did it my way

Paunic, Alida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Despite globalization which often tends to serves its own interest through fast capital movement, maximization of profit, cost cutting and global mind making, each country is on its own path to future. This path is paved with past achievements, government decision about taxation, privatization,...

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Colonialism and development in Africa

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A. - African Economic History Network - 2013

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … interesting. We emphasize that to draw conclusions it is necessary not just to know what actually happened to development during …

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Postal financial services, development and inclusion: Building on the past and looking to the future

d'Alcantara, Gonzales; Dembinski, Paul H.; Pilley, Odile - Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - … - 2014

development agenda where financial inclusion has become a top priority in the developing world. The question to be addressed is …

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Coordination of spatial and industrial development in cluster frames. Foreign experience.

Sorokina, A. - In: Published Papers (2014)

This work shows a brief overview of the main approaches to coordination of industrial and territorial development in … initiatives aimed at solution of several tasks of economic development: stimulating of innovation activity, organization of new … allows to use cluster approach for coordinated solution of questions of industry and territory development. …

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