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The economic system and economic development [PDF]
Intereconomics, 1987 An increasing number of voices have recently been claiming that an economic system based more strongly on the market should be introduced in Third World countries for reasons of efficiency. What conditions need to be met in the developing countries for this to be possible? What specific measures should be taken?
Fasbender, Karl, Kebschull, Dietrich
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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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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 By understanding the economics of agribusiness, an important economic sector for developing countries, this article explores possibilities for a new development paradigm based on areas of opportunities created for local entrepreneurs. Based on a detailed
Gabriel da Silva Medina
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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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Development Economics and Economic Development: Why do Institution Matter? [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2007 Economic development is a complex phenomenon, at least when speaking about understanding its real sources, despite the simplifying tendencies of economic growth neoclassical theories.
Cosmin Marinescu
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The influence of location on the competitiveness of South African industries
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2008 The effects of location on the international competitiveness of South African industries are investigated in this paper. The relationship between location and its competitiveness platform is important during the establishment of new manufacturing plants,
Ewert Kleynhans, Ernst Drewes
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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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Development economics in the fight against poverty [PDF]
Bankarstvo, 2020 Eradicating poverty in all its forms is one of the fundamental goals of the United Nations' plan for sustainable development. In this context, it is not surprising that the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...
Lukić Zlata
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Lauchlin Currie and Albert O. Hirschman on Development as a Problem of Decision Making
Œconomia, 2019 This paper analyzes L. Currie and A. O. Hirschman’s contributions to development economics in the context of their Colombian experience as foreign experts. We show that the common ideas about the divergences between these authors have overlooked the view
Andrés Álvarez +2 more
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Geography and Economic Development [PDF]
International Regional Science Review, 1998 Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choices. Many geographic regions that have not been conducive to modern economic growth have high population densities ...
Gallup, John Luke +2 more
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