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Posted by Ignacio  on  Mon, 30/06/2008

The first Development Marketplace for the African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE) ended in Brussels last week, awarding close to a million dollars for sixteen investment projects in Africa. The winning projects will be implemented in 11 African countries, including Mali (4), Cote d'Ivoire (2) Benin (2) and one each for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

The winners were selected from a group of 68 finalists who presented projects that a 24-person jury deemed innovative, sustainable, replicable and based on sound business principles. The D-MADE initiative was launched in 2007 to allow entrepreneurs from the African Diaspora in Europe to participate in the development of their countries.




Posted by Ignacio  on  Fri, 27/06/2008

As usual on Fridays, from  Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes.

Gender Inequality and the Labor Market




Posted by Raj  on  Tue, 24/06/2008

 The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it? By Paul Collier. Oxford University Press, 2007
 
 The main thesis of the book is that globalization has been beneficial to a majority of the people in the developed and developing world, except for a large group of small countries in Africa, Caribbean ad Pacific countries, which comprise of a billion people (out of the total world population of about 6.5 billion). These billion people are being increasingly marginalized by globalization. For example, average per capita GDP growth of the economies of the bottom billion was 0.5% in 1970s, 0.4% in 1980s and negative 0.50% in 1990s. In comparison, per capita GDP growth in other developing countries increased from 2.5% in 1970s to 4% each in 1980s and 1990s. So there is big time divergence in income between the bottom billion and rest of the world population.
 

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Posted by Ignacio  on  Fri, 20/06/2008

Like every Friday, from  Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes.




Posted by Ignacio  on  Fri, 13/06/2008

Like every Friday, from  Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes.

Economic growth and gender inequality




Posted by Ignacio  on  Thu, 12/06/2008



Posted by Ignacio  on  Mon, 09/06/2008

The June issue of Development Outreach, the World Bank Institute's magazine, is out.

This issue addresses the question of how companies can operate profitably in emerging market economies, while enhancing the well-being of the poor by nurturing them as producers and consumers.

The whole issue is available on-line.

 




Posted by Ignacio  on  Fri, 06/06/2008

From  Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes.

Empirical studies of gender inequalities and economic growth (and 3)

 By focusing on differential school attainment as the measure of gender inequality, Dollar and Gatti (1999) estimate the growth equation mentioned before, i.e. :

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Posted by Ignacio  on  Wed, 04/06/2008

We mentioned yesterday the recently published Growth Report.  Willian Easterly and Martin Wolf give their views about it in the FT. Others joined the discussion at the FT's Economists' Forum.

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Posted by Ignacio  on  Tue, 03/06/2008

The Commission on Growth and Development, an independent group of twenty-one leading practitioners from government, business and the policymaking arenas, released recently its final report The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development,which looks at how developing countries can achieve fast sustained and equitable growth.

 

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