Economic Growth and Development
up to five times as many workers as were needed. This failure has been blamed on enduring workplace conflict and mistrust which ...
technology without the direct involvement of the foreign firm. This was strik- ingly difference from the dependence on imported ...
increasing by between 1 and 2.3 per cent in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. This was associated with a much lower share ...
was introduced in 1976 and by 1990 it was sown in more than 40 per cent of rice-growing areas. The yield of the latest dwarf var ...
dominant determinant. This has led to what is known as ‘the 90/10 problem’ where 90 per cent of R&D is focused on health iss ...
protection under the WTO in the early 1990s forms an interesting case study. The results relevant to developing country diseases ...
Cockburn, 2001). Such appropriate technological change has enabled Indian pharmaceutical firms to export 60 per cent of their va ...
ITN use among children younger than five years increased dramatically across Africa from 2 per cent in 2000 to around 38 per cen ...
learning and spillovers from FDI (Kumar and Agarwal, 2000). There is an important question here. Do joint ventures or wholly-own ...
by high domestic tariffs to produce for the domestic market in a developing country can lead to negative spillovers by contribut ...
but will limit potential technology and learning transfer to the host economy (Delderbos et al., 2001). Empirical evidence shows ...
Chapter 6 Education and Health The question of education and health in relation to economic growth can be confused, not by the i ...
Education and health in developing countries Education Literacy is a widely discussed measure of human capital; shows both how m ...
The literacy data in Table 6.1 are based on relatively simple writing or read- ing tests. Whether a person is functionally liter ...
emerges when the three poor countries (Afghanistan, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia) are compared with three developed countries (Swed ...
the ability to expend either mental or physical effort while at work. Health will contribute to human capital formation through ...
happened prior to 1980. During the rapid economic growth that occurred after 1980 there was relatively little progress in furthe ...
provided free at the point of use and there is an inherent difficulty in measur- ing the output or productivity of a teacher. A ...
African countries the expansion of education has exceeded the growth of wage employment leading to declining returns to educatio ...
changes in test scores are also associated with fluctuations in growth between 1975 and 2000. These results are robust and still ...
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