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QUALITATIVE INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS OF THE BRAZILIAN STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION, 2005 - 2014
This paper investigates the changes to the essential economic structure of the Brazilian economy from 2005 to 2014. It uses the method of qualitative input-output analysis and its extensions, applied by Aroche-Reyes (1996) and Gosh and Roy (1998), to ...
Henrique Morrone
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Microfinance and economic development [PDF]
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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Kalecki made important contributions to development economics, which rank him among the founding fathers of this area of our discipline. The objective of this paper is to give an account of his contributions, and in particular of his conception of the ...
Julio López G.+2 more
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From the concept of economic development to local economic development [PDF]
Growth in Gross domestic product or per capita income is a necessary element of economic development but not sufficient one. This separates economic growth from economic development. These days the Human development index is also taken as the most important measure for economic development.
Kumari, Namita, Bhanoo, Suman
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars on the grounds that their pioneering use of randomized control trials (RCTs) was innovative methodologically and contributed to development policy and the emergence of a new development ...
N. Kabeer
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Writing the History of Development Economics
This question, apparently unproblematic, has been at the center of the development discourse for decades now. Indeed, the first major debate that shaped the discipline—the 1950s balanced-growth versus unbalanced-growth debate—was fought under the rubric ...
M. Alacevich, M. Boianovsky
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The Role of Entropy in the Development of Economics
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of thermodynamics, and in particular, entropy, for the development of economics within the last 150 years. The use of entropy has not only led to a significant increase in economic knowledge, but also to the ...
A. Jakimowicz
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Dealing with rent and rentier economies: New perspectives from institutional economics
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 in the fight against poverty [PDF]
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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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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