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Economics of Development and the Development of Economics [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993 The purpose of this paper is to restore some historical perspective by highlighting the many contributions of development economics to the rest of economics. We will point out to the younger generations how some of the glittering ideas they currently play with originally came from that now-neglected field and how in some cases they have rediscovered ...
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The Nature of Economic Development and the Economic Development of Nature [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Contemporary models of growth and development are founded on a category error: they ignore nature as a form of productive capital. Using as backdrop two recent books on the Indian economy that are representative of the prevailing orthodoxy, I review and in part extend an emerging literature that integrates development and environmental thinking ...
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IPRs, Technological Development, and Economic Development [PDF]
Journal of Economic Issues, 2006 textabstractIn the year 2000 some $142 billion in royalties were paid internationally by users of a specific piece of knowledge that were protected under Intellectual Property Right law (IPR) to those parties that owned these rights. Under current circumstances where knowledge & innovation play an increasingly significant role in the economy (Foray ...
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Economic Development and Intergenerational Economic Mobility [PDF]
International Finance Discussion Papers, 1995 This paper examines theoretically how economic growth affects intergenerational economic mobility. In the model developed in this paper, education is provided to the individuals free of cost, and admission to schools is competitive. The quantity of educational services available in any period depends on the total output of the economy in the same ...
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Asian Economic Development [PDF]
The Pakistan Development Review, 1966 Nearly three-fourths of the poor people of the world live in Asia. Of these, more than a third live in the six countries of Burma, Ceylon, India, Malaya, Pakistan and Thailand. All these nations, except Thailand (which was merely in the British sphere of influence), are former colonies of the British Empire.
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Innovation and Economic Development [PDF]
, 2010 Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labor in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to leading centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical "first world" activity. There is, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture.
Jan Fagerberg +2 more
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Health economics education in undergraduate medical training : introducing the health economics education (HEe) website [PDF]
, 2013 In the UK, the General Medical Council clearly stipulates that upon completion of training, medical students should be able to discuss the principles underlying the development of health and health service policy, including issues relating to health ...
Frew, Emma +2 more
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Economic Development and Development Economics (Presidential Address)
The Pakistan Development Review, 1993 To state that development economics is about economic development is now considered beyond debate. But opinions differ about what constitutes economic development and its proper index; in particular whether the growth of per capita income adequately captures its flavour. Thus, instead of being regarded, a La Lewis, as just a
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Economics of information and the theory of economic development [PDF]
Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 1985 This paper shows how recent developments in the economics of information can provide insights into economic relations in less developed countries, and how they can provide explanations for institutions which, in neoclassical theory, appear anomalous and/or inefficient.
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The Introduction of Anthropometrics into Development and Labor Economics [PDF]
, 2004 We trace the introduction of anthropometric indicators into development and labor economics in the late ...
Komlos, John, Meermann, Lukas
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