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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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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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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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Using Randomized Controlled Trials to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics
Annual Review of Economics, 2019 We assess evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor countries. We first document that several studies estimate large positive long-run impacts, but that relatively few existing RCTs ...
Adrien Bouguen +3 more
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L’approche latino-américaine de l’économie populaire, les inégalités et la pauvreté
Revue de la Régulation, 2009 This article analyses the evolution of the policies and theories in development economics since the 1950’s. It shows the reasons of their decline at the beginning of the 1980’s and situates the approach of the popular economy which emerges in Latin ...
Isabelle Hillenkamp
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Dealing with rent and rentier economies: New perspectives from institutional economics
Revue de la Régulation, 2022 Heterodox economics may study rent from various angles. The first one is that of the source of income; the second is that of its macroeconomic impacts; the third is that of income distribution. This introduction highlights the contributions of the papers
Adrien Faudot, Julien Vercueil
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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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Journal of economic surveys (Print), 2018 Despite the popularity of promoting entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for economic development, there is little scientific basis on which policy makers can lean.
J. Hessels, W. Naudé
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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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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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