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This study explores the question of structural change and inclusive development in South Africa and Brazil. Using …
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Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the … last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The … paper argues that Brazil's unique combination of economic and social policies is at the root of its inclusive growth, but it …
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By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...
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To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This article shows that it is not only absolute geography, in terms of for instance climate or being landlocked, but also...
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empirical approaches, or on mere qualitative narrative. Consequently, the approach undertaken here for the case of Bolivia is of … explanations of Bolivia's performance; iii) an empirical analysis of the country's enterprise sector performance on the basis of a … detailed firm-level survey conducted recently in 80 countries, and, iv) an empirical analysis of Bolivia's public agencies …
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Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...
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) especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …
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), especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia …, and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …
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We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development traps operating at the demographic, economic and institutional levels, we seek to assess whether and to what extent their functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture...
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