Economic Growth and Development
sixteenth century were often much higher in countries that are now ‘poor and tropical’. The subsequent success of temperate agri ...
One way of dealing with the problem of being landlocked is to re-orient trade to the regional economy. Efforts at regional integ ...
There is a need to tighten the regulatory framework in the global construction sector alongside big infrastructure aid increases ...
The availability of natural resources are products of geography and may influence output directly (exporting oil) or indirectly ...
Chapter 12 Culture The Greek historian Herodotus, writing around 430 BCE, claimed that Greeks were exposed to more changeable we ...
and acceptability of employing professional experts rather than family members in family firms; attitudes to social changes gene ...
between Muslims and Hindus and fertility rates among Indian Muslims are falling rapidly. It is the wider economic and social dri ...
who renounce worldly wealth, but many Hindus also appeal to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity, for divine support in ...
Sub-Saharan Africa would show greater resistance to fertility decline than any other region in the world because of a cultural/r ...
30,000 to 100,000. The population was diverse, with little sense of community. In this individualistic society a merchant random ...
described this mix of hard work and the moral imperative to save rather than consume as ‘worldly asceticism’, contrasting it wit ...
measure of economic development is growth of city size which has been widely used as a proxy for income growth. The study finds ...
economic growth and dynamism. We leave aside for the moment the debate and evidence that shows more equal societies tend to expe ...
the effects of group membership more generally. Does belonging to a church have any extra or different advantages from belonging ...
group reaches 50 per cent or more, then other ethnic groups face the possibil- ity of permanent political exclusion in a democra ...
example is the ‘crisis of governance’ in India after the mid-1960s. Atul Kohli (1990) defined this crisis as a failure of politi ...
Culture or cash? What appears to be a demand for ethnic justice or liberation based on identity (conflict caused by cultural div ...
mobilized new groups. In such a system the most important positions of lead- ership can normally only be attained by those who h ...
Networks Much economic activity takes place with some sort of reference to the future, such as goods and services or labour bein ...
or would repeated interaction in any group, such as a bowling club, be suffi- cient? The impact of group membership and particip ...
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