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Political Predation and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
We analyze a game between citizens and governments, whose type (benevolent or predatory) is unknown to the public. Opportunistic governments mix between predation and restraint. As long as restraint is observed, political expectations improve, people enter the modern sector, and the economy grows.
Azam, Jean-Paul   +2 more
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Finance and Economic Development

open access: yesRevue internationale de politique de développement, 2012
Published by Palgrave MacmillanThis chapter reviews the literature on finance and economic development. It starts with a description of the roles of finance, a definition of financial efficiency, and a discussion of whether countries may have financial sectors that are ‘too large’ compared to the size of the domestic economy. Next, the author describes
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Economic Development and Migration

open access: yesMediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2015
© 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All rights reserved. At present population migration is a global problem that requires a serious and deep analysis of both how to address underlying causes of migration and its socio-economic consequences.
Nizamutdinov I., Malaev V.
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IPRs, Technological Development, and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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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Rethinking Development Economics

open access: yesThe World Bank Research Observer, 2011
The global financial crisis, too, has cast doubt over the neoclassical paradigm in advanced industrial countries, and rightly so. Much of development economics had been viewed as asking how developing countries could successfully transition toward the kinds of market-oriented policy frameworks that came to be called "American style capitalism." The ...
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States and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Economia Política, 2009
Today the Washington Consensus on development lies in tatters. The recent history of the developing world has been unkind to the core claim that a nation that opens its economy and keeps government's role to a minimum invariably experiences rapid economic growth.
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Essays in Development Economics

open access: yes, 2021
Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and crime economics. This essay is composed of 3 academic papers that analyze actual social problems that have received little attention by policy makers and
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Economics of information and the theory of economic development [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian 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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