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The economics of agricultural development: what have we learned?

open access: yesOléagineux, Corps gras, Lipides, 2006
Agricultural development thinking has gone through several stages of fad and fancy, often without an understanding of previous fallacies. Its current doldrums are unfortunate given the unrivaled importance of agricultural development for poverty ...
Roumasset James
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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2019: Poverty Alleviation and Experiments in Development Economics [PDF]

open access: yesФинансовый 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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Innovation and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Socio‑Economic Determinants of Construction Sector Development [PDF]

open access: yesSocioEconomic Challenges
This study investigates the empirical interaction between changing socioeconomic challenges and the construction sector in Cambodia. The empirical analysis applied uses data from the Statistical Yearbook of Cambodia (2021) to analyze the statistical ...
Florian Gerth   +2 more
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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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A Nationalistic Framework for Political Economy: Textbooks on Indian Economics during the Early-Twentieth Century

open access: yesŒconomia, 2019
The end of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of the idea of Indian Economics, which its proponents hoped would address the issue of the scientific method of studying the Indian economy, and help in laying out a path for economic development.
Sharmin Khodaiji
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China's Trade in Steel Products: Evolution of Policy Goals and Instruments

open access: yesThe Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2014
There is a growing consensus in development economics suggesting that successful economic policies feature a combination or succession of inward- and outward-oriented strategies.
Peter Thomas in der Heiden
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A Journey Through the Theory of Economic Development

open access: yesCompetitio, 2020
The theory of development economics changed signifcantly from the first attempts of defining the concepts in the 50s until nowadays. The contributions to the development theory are at the same time closely related to the historical context of the ...
Lavinia Sidonia Delcea
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Country Case Studies in Economic Fitness: Mexico and Brazil

open access: yesEntropy, 2018
We leverage a new complexity framework called Economic Fitness, which characterizes an economy’s level of diversification and its capabilities to produce more complex products. It can be used to predict economic growth and competitiveness.
Kirstin Roster   +2 more
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The Role of Migration in Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: Evidence from Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education, 2022
The research examines the relationship between the migration of men and the empowerment of women who remain in the households. The study looks at Nigeria – a Sub-Saharan African country with the highest migration outflows and prevalent gender inequality.
Viktoriya Kan, Boidurjo Mukhopadhyay
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