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The Impact of Mobility Restrictions on Trade Facilitation at Borders: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central Asia

open access: yesAsian Development Review
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, mobility restrictions had a significant impact on trade times and costs at the borders, particularly in landlocked developing countries. This paper examines the effect of COVID-19 mobility measures
KIJIN KIM   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Essays in Development Economics

open access: yes, 2021
Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and crime economics. This essay is composed of 3 academic papers that analyze actual social problems that have received little attention by policy makers and
openaire   +2 more sources

Subnational variations in educational attainment and labour market outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Levels of educational attainment do not only vary among countries, but also within them. In many countries, people with tertiary education – usually the most skilled people – are more highly represented in the capital region. Regional employment rates in
OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
core   +2 more sources

The Potential for Extracellular Vesicles in Nanomedicine: A Review of Recent Advancements and Challenges Ahead

open access: yesAdvanced Biology, EarlyView.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a dual role in diagnostics and therapeutics, offering innovative solutions for treating cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and orthopedic diseases. This review highlights EVs’ potential to revolutionize personalized medicine through specific applications in disease detection and treatment.
Farbod Ebrahimi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development

open access: yes, 2017
The 1870-1913 period marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization. How did this tremendous increase in trade affect economic development? This work isolates a causality channel by exploiting the fact that the steamship produced an asymmetric ...
L. Pascali
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Real Exchange Rate Policies for Economic Development

open access: yesWorld Development, 2017
This paper analyzes the role of real exchange rate (RER) policies in promoting economic development. Markets provide a suboptimal amount of investment in sectors characterized by learning spillovers.
Martin M Guzman, J. Ocampo, J. Stiglitz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

School Improvement Through Strong Leadership [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
According to the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), principals, on average, report frequently engaging in a number of activities that are consistent with instructional leadership.
OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
core   +2 more sources

Assessing the Ecological Value: Monetizing Process Innovations in Tailored Forming

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This article introduces a method for evaluating the sustainability of innovations, even with limited data. The method is illustrated through an analysis of the “Tailored Forming” technology, which explores the impact of sustainability on economic value added.
Jonas Schneider   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variety, Complexity and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
We propose a combinatorial model of economic development. An economy develops by acquiring new capabilities allowing for the production of an ever greater variety of products of increasingly complex products. Taking into account that economies abandon the least complex products as they develop over time, we show that variety first increases and then ...
arxiv  

Reinventing the regions: Victoria’s changing regional economies [PDF]

open access: yes
Regional Victoria accounts for around a quarter of the State\u27s population and economic output. In March 2013 Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan released the Reinventing the Regions report which documents the
Committee for Economic Development of Australia   +1 more
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