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Becoming a rich country requires the ability to produce and export commodities that embody certain characteristics. We classify 779 exported commodities according to two dimensions: (1) sophistication (measured by the income content of the products exported); and (2) connectivity to other...
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, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher media (newspaper circulation) penetration …
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Global private capital flows have barely touched the poorest nations; the rich invest mostly with the rich. Confronted with this wealth bias in cross-border investment flows, one of the starkest facts of the global economy, theorists and empiricists have spent roughly the last decade looking for...
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A lack of drugs with which to combat poverty-related diseases is a global health problem. This book presents various … regard to neglected poverty-related diseases and to aligning the medical and technical innovation system to them. …
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Wealth inequalities both within and between nations has reached an extreme point and is continuing to increase (Collier P. The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it. Oxford University Press, New York, 2007; Henneberg S, The wealth gaps. Farmington Hills:...
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Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have, rarely, involved both developing and developed countries. The … present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demographic … of demographic adjustment of the poverty line, that incorporate household size and composition changes, on the poverty …
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