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The Development of "Development" [PDF]
Indonesia, 1988 Approaching the end of the twentieth century, the majority of us who have had some schooling are accustomed to see the sun rise over the eastern horizon every morning. And we believe our perceptions, even though the sun has never risen over any horizon whatsoever.
Ariel Heryanto, Nancy Lutz
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Developed-developing country partnerships: Benefits to developed countries? [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2012 Abstract Developing countries can generate effective solutions for today’s global health challenges. This paper reviews relevant literature to construct the case for international cooperation, and in particular, developed-developing country partnerships.
Liam Donaldson +11 more
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Volatility and Development [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007 Why is GDP growth so much more volatile in poor countries than in rich ones? We identify three possible reasons: (i) poor countries specialize in fewer and more volatile sectors; (ii) poor countries experience more frequent and more severe aggregate shocks (e.g., from macroeconomic policy); and (iii) poor countries' macroeconomic fluctuations are more ...
Miklós Koren +2 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially. We apply the model to study the evolution of the US economy in the last half-century and find that it can generate the ...
Klaus Desmet, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
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Isolation and Development [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric geographical isolation has generated a persistent ...
Quamrul H. Ashraf +4 more
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Geography and Development [PDF]
Journal of Economic Geography, 2000 The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, including the coexistence of economic development and underdevelopment. High-income regions are almost entirely concentrated in a few temperate zones, half of the world's GDP is produced by 15 percent of the world's population, and ...
Henderson, J. Vernon +2 more
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American Economic Review, 2008 In a wide variety of settings, spiteful preferences would constitute an obstacle to cooperation, trade, and thus economic development. This paper shows that spiteful preferences - the desire to reduce another's material payoff for the mere purpose of increasing one's relative payoff - are surprisingly widespread in experiments conducted in one of the ...
Fehr, Ernst +2 more
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Developing Scales of Development [PDF]
Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 2014 Author(s): Currie, Thomas E | Abstract: A review essay on The Measure of Civilization by Ian Morris (Princeton University Press)
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Theoretical Computer Science, 1997 AbstractIn the absence of termination, confluence of rewriting systems is often hard to establish. The class of orthogonal rewriting systems is the main class of not-necessarily-terminating, but confluent rewriting systems. The reason why confluence holds in orthogonal rewriting systems is the absence of the so-called critical pairs, making that ...
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IIMB Management Review, 2010 AbstractBusinesses now contribute to development through avenues other than the generation of employment and economic growth, such as corporate social responsibility initiatives, corporate accountability movements and alternative business models, using several partnership formats to deliver. A panel with representatives from leading corporations, NGOs,
Darryl Reed, Ananya Mukherjee Reed
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