Economic Growth and Development
In summary, the concept of dependence as applied to developing countries ‘is usually given an arbitrary selective definition whi ...
The Spanish Inquisition from the late fifteenth century was an attempt to assert the dominance of the Catholic Church and its id ...
confirm there was nothing new in the rest of the world. China lacked the insti- tutions and organizations that made for a cumula ...
Key points Openness can influence economic growth through its impact on the supply of labour via net immigration or migration; ...
Conclusion:Eight Principles for Policy-Makers The introduction to this book posed three big questions: When did the massive ine ...
(especially energy), health and education (primary, higher and training), and the business environment (international distributi ...
standards covering banking transparency, banking supervision and accounting standards, further increasing this cost (Rodrik, 200 ...
pointed to the same conclusion. Foreign debt was declining and the current account was showing sharp improvement. The real inter ...
social security) or because of the resistance of those who would lose out (democracy, income tax), lacking supporting changes (t ...
to achieve that goal. As we noted in Chapter 3, many scholars have made the link between investment and economic growth. But thi ...
unemployment. The ribbon loom was resisted Europe-wide in contrast to its more rapid adoption in Lancashire, England after 1816. ...
monitoring government workers and holding them accountable for failures in performing their duties, and monitoring politicians a ...
The deep determinants can be modified The deep determinants may be deep but they are not destiny; they can be modi- fied to prom ...
Being audited hurts corrupt incumbents. In the 2004 election corrupt incum- bents were 12 percentage points less likely and hone ...
so punish absence. In Udaipur, India a member of the community was paid to check to attendance of health care professionals; the ...
ever occurred in an independent country with a democratic form of govern- ment and a free press. A democratic government exposed ...
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