The Elusive Quest for Growth

By William R. Easterly. 2001

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Winners and Losers: Assessing the Distributional Impact of Privatization (2003, background): “Thus, as Easterly (2001) notes, additional invest- ment capital or additional foreign exchange provided by aid will not necessarily yield any additional product or growth.”
Capital Accumulation and Growth: A New Look at the Empirical Evidence (2010, methodology): “Introducing separate linear trends for each country would not allow the identification of the coefficient γ1 on the interaction term in (13).”
Innovations in Climate Risk Management: Protecting and Building Rural Livelihoods in a Variable and Changing Climate (2007, background): “Poor countries and the relatively poor within countries are disproportionately impacted by climate-related disasters (Carter et al., 2007; Easterly, 2001; Gaiha and Thapa, 2006).”
Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction (2019, background): “Yet the traditional model of governmental country-to-country grants on a very large scale that have often been and advocated are now generally viewed as ineffective on their own (in absence of learning and social validation of entrepreneurship) (Easterly 2002, 2013; Hwang and Christensen 2008).”
Rural poverty dynamics: development policy implications (2003, background): “11 Easterly (2001) offers an especially accessible, even entertaining treatment of the evolution of growth theory and the empirical evidence on economic growth.”
The roles of research at universities and public labs in economic catch-up (2005, background): “and the associated failures in earlier World Bank development strategies, have been highlighted by Easterly (2002).”
New frontiers in international strategy (2004, background): “With regard to economic development theory, the unique and disruptive character of BOP markets could help to reframe the current thinking with regard to comparative advantage, where developing countries must follow a predictable course of commodity production, labor cost, and assembly platform strat”
Governance Institutions and Economic Activity (2009, background): “…contract, and the relative merits of such contractual governance using the state and private ordering can be analyzed in an overarching “lens of contract,” as Oliver Williamson individuals specialize in different tasks and then transact with one another to achieve the full economic potential of…”
Is Democracy Good for the Poor (2006, background): “A fourth variable measured ethno-linguistic fractionalization, which according to several scholars tends to reduce the quality of governance (Easterly 2001; Easterly and Levine 1997;”
The role of cognitive skills in economic development (2008, background): “Wise 1983). Notably, Murnane et al. (2000) separate the direct returns to measured skill from the indi”
Tradable Immigration Quotas (2014, unknown): “…nature, and to migrants comparative advantage in targeting recipients.3 As noted above, migration and the induced remittances have been a powerful force in the ght against global poverty while the contribution of foreign aid to poverty reduction is at best controversial (Easterly, 2001).”