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Building Agro-Industrial Capabilities in the Sugarcane Supply Chain in Brazil

open access: yesLogistics, 2023
Background: This study aims to explore how domestic entrepreneurs can benefit from the thriving global agribusiness by establishing themselves in agro-industrial segments that can best remunerate capital and labour.
Gabriel da Silva Medina   +1 more
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – A MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2021
This article was created to present a broader, more critical view of the idea and concept of sustainable development, which has dominated the discourse on development for several decades. Based on the analysis of the literature on the subject, an attempt
Rafał Baum
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The Influence of Randomized Controlled Trials on Development Economics Research and on Development Policy

open access: yesThe State of Economics, the State of the World, 2020
Many (though by no means all) of the questions that development economists and policymakers ask themselves are causal in nature: What would be the impact of adding computers in classrooms?
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Esther Duflo Michael Kremer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Economics of Agribusiness in Developing Countries: Areas of Opportunities for a New Development Paradigm in the Soybean Supply Chain in Brazil

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and the Birth of Development Economics

open access: yesHistory of Political Economy, 2020
This article, based on previously untapped archival sources, offers an assessment of the life and thought of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, a pioneer of development economics and one of the first articulators of both the “Big Push” and “balanced growth” theories.
M. Alacevich
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer, and the Rise of Modern Development Economics*

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020
In 2019, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. These three scholars were recognized “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.
B. Olken
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The economic system and economic development [PDF]

open access: yesIntereconomics, 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]

open access: yesJournal 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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Development Economics and Economic Development: Why do Institution Matter? [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical 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 Nature of Economic Development and the Economic Development of Nature [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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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