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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Development economists"”.
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Sources of Productivity Growth and Its Relation to the Distribution of Income in Industrialized Countries and Korea
… of poverty are the most important concern of the economists. So, the area of economic growth and income distribution has been drawing growing attention to many development economists and policy makers since the early 1960s.
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Developmental state and agriculture for development: lessons for Ghana from East Asia
… have shown divergence in economic growth and development. This study argues that in order for Sub- Saharan Africa to make progress in its quest for development, countries in the region must carefully and seriously study the development experiences of late-industrializing economies in East …
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Determinants of financial inclusion in Namibia: An analysis of the gender
There is a consensus between many development economists that a well-developed and inclusive financial system promotes inclusive growth and better livelihoods. Yet the size of the financially excluded adults in the world is still enormous. Generally, women are disproportionately excluded from …
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Institutions, the State, and Economic Development: An Analysis and Evaluation of Ha-Joon Chang's Critique of the Dominant Discourse and His Thoughts on State-Led Development Theory
… activity in developing economies. Mainstream economists, like Hernando De Soto and Douglass North, argue private property rights and free markets, and the institutions which nourish and protect them, are the primary driver of economic growth. Heterodox economists, led by prominent author and …
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Economic development with finance: studies of emerging economies
… researching purposes to show the macroeconomic development with finance, as well as to consider the comparative proxies of investment and trading sectors in emerging economies. These four original working chapters can be briefly presented as: Theoretical Models, Structural Breaks for NICs of …
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An application of a model of public management reform to tax administration reform in South Africa
… administration is replete with literature from development economists in particular, there does not appear to be much attempt in the archive to study tax administration or tax administration reform from a public administration perspective. This dissertation attempts to do precisely that. It …
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The impact of culture and government policies on Ghana's economic development
… factors' for accelerating Ghana's economic development. An extensive review and analysis of relevant literature and socio-economic data regarding culture, government policies and economic development, provides a wider view of the relevant areas and concepts for the development of the …
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Market organisation and the process of economic development: the case of the partially liberalised cocoa market in Ghana.
… years the link between market organisation and development has come under increased scrutiny in response to the implementation of World Bank liberalisation policies across many of sub-Saharan Africa's agriculture markets. Under the neoliberal teachings of the Washington Consensus, liberalised …
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Conflicts and refugees in developing countries
… developing regions’ rate of economic growth. Economists, especially development economists, have been long engaged with the question of what makes different countries more or less successful economically and what explains their rate of economic growth. Different authors select their own …
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Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus
… insiders and the broader epistemic community of development economists have causal effect on LIC policy reform. Evidence gathered through process tracing methods shows that reform occurred after economic ideas that underwrote previous policy positions lost legitimacy among influential elites …
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Applying the capabilities approach in economic development
Economists working in the field of development have highlighted the need to examine fully that is the ultimate aim of their work. The capabilities approach (CA) of Amartya Sen (1999) provides a perspective that concentrates on this enlargement of people's choices by focusing on the expansion of …