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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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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2019: Poverty Alleviation and Experiments in Development Economics [PDF]
Финансовый журнал, 2020 In this paper, the results of empirical studies by Nobel Prize laureates in Economic Sciences 2019 Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are discussed.
Vyacheslav N. Ovchinnikov
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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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Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2023 Objective: to review the scientific contribution of Rustem Makhmutovich Nureyev to the Russian economics; to determine the best practices and life position of R. M.
D. V. Manushin, Sh. I. Enikeev
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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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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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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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Microfinance and economic development [PDF]
, 2017 Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other forms of social enterprise and social investment. But recent evidence shows only modest average impacts on customers,
Cull, Robert, Morduch, Jonathan
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