Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2009, Global
Subtitle: People, Politics, and Globalization
By: Justin, Yifu Lin; Pleskovic, Boris
Series: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics
Publisher: The World Bank
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780821380598; 9780821377222
Subjects: Emerging Markets; Civil Society and Participation Governance; Labor Policies; Political planning; Environmental Economics and Policies; Economic Theory and Research; Access to Finance; Economics; Banks and Banking Reform; Development economics; Population Policies; Pro-Poor Growth; Debt Markets
Other titles: World Bank e-Library.
Description: This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, think tanks, NGOs, and international institutions. These papers concern: Trade and economic performance: does Africa's fragmentation matter?; Protectionist Policies and Manufacturing Trade Flows in Africa; Criss-Crossing Globalization: The Phenomenon of Uphill Skills flows; The Aid-Migration Trade off; Are Remittances More Effective than Aid to Improve Child Health? An Empirical Assessment Using Inter- and Intra-country data; Role of Emigration and Emigrant Networks in Labor Market Decision of non-Migrants; the Role of Higher Education in High-tech Industry Development: A Review of International Experience; Higher Education and Industry: What Linkages in Africa; An Arrested Virtuous Circle?; Higher Education and High-tech Industry in India; Health and socio-economic status: Isolating causal pathways; The Household Impacts of Treating HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries; First Things First: Infectious Disease, Child Mortality and the poor in India 1992-2005; What Makes Growth Shared?; On the Political Economy of Inclusive Development; Characterizing Conflict Forms; Public Goods Provision in South Asia.
Notes: Description based on print version record.