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2017

2017-051 Testing the growth links of emerging economies: Croatia in a growing world economy
Thomas Ziesemer
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2017-050 Effects of health insurance on labour supply: Evidence from the health care fund for the poor in Viet Nam
Nga Leopold, Wim Groot, Sonila Tomini & Florian Tomini
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2017-049 Does publicly provided health care affect migration? Evidence from Mexico
Clotilde Mahé
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2017-048 A profile of non-farm household enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa
Paula Nagler
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2017-047 Institutional diversity in the Euro area: any evidence of convergence?
Salvador Pérez-Moreno, Elena Bárcena-Martín & Jo Ritzen
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2017-046 Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance
Robin Cowan & Giulia Rossello
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2017-045 Stock-flow consistent data for the Dutch economy, 1995-2015
Joan Muysken, Bas Bonekamp & Huub Meijers
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2017-044 The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Amelie Constant
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2017-043 Ageing, human capital and demographic dividends with endogenous growth, labour supply and foreign capital
Anne Edle von Gaessler & Thomas Ziesemer
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2017-042 Financial mechanism to invest in knowledge from natural resource revenues: Experiences from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Peru
Michiko Iizuka, Fernando Vargas & Jakob Baumann
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2017-041 Multinational firms and the extractive sectors in the 21st century: Can they drive development?
Rajneesh Narula
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2017-040 Rates of return to antipoverty transfers in Uganda
Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos & Franziska Gassmann
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2017-039 Occupational choice of return migrants: Is there a 'Jack-of-all-trades' effect?
Clotilde Mahé
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2017-038 On the relationship between the breadth of PTAs and trade flows
Rod Falvey & Neil Foster-McGregor
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2017-037 Promoting structural transformation: Strategic diversification vs laissez-faire approach
Clovis Freire Junior
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2017-036 Testing linear growth rate formulas of non-scale endogenous growth models
Thomas Ziesemer
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2017-035 Is the demand-pull driver equally crucial for product vs process innovation?
Herbert Dawid, Gabriele Pellegrino & Marco Vivarelli
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2017-034 How inequality hurts growth: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira model through a Korean case
Bogang Jun, Mary Kaltenberg & Won-Sik Hwang
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2017-033 Economic diversification: Explaining the pattern of diversification in the global economy and its implications for fostering diversification in poorer countries
Clovis Freire Junior
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2017-032 The need to customise innovation indicators in developing countries
Michiko Iizuka & Hugo Hollanders
This paper has been revised made available as a GRIPS discussion paper (#2019-29): Permalink : http://doi.org/10.24545/00001723.
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2017-031 Husbands' return migration and wives' occupational choices
Clotilde Mahé
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2017-030 Opening and linking up: Firms, global value chains and productivity in Latin America
Pierluigi Montalbano, Silvia Nenci & Carlo Pietrobelli
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2017-029 Social protection investments, human capital, and income growth: Simulating the returns to social cash transfers in Uganda
Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos, Franziska Gassmann, Pierre Mohnen, Nyasha Tirivayi, Susan Kavuma & Fred Matovu
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2017-028 Willingness to pay for agricultural risk insurance as a strategy to adapt climate change
Tigist Mekonnen Melesse
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2017-027 Heterogeneous effects of bilateral investment treaties
Rod Falvey & Neil Foster-McGregor
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2017-026 Sanitation challenges of the poor in urban and rural settings: Case studies of Bengaluru City and rural North Karnataka
Manasi Seshaiah, Latha Nagesh & Hemalatha Ramesh
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2017-025 Indigenous knowledge for sustainable livelihoods: Lessons from ecological pest control and post-harvest techniques of Baduy (West Java) and Nguni (Southern Africa)
Leeja C Korina & Alexis Habiyaremye
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2017-024 Estimating the impact of sericulture adoption on farmer income in Rwanda
Alexis Habiyaremye
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2017-023 Regional analysis of sanitation performance in India
Debasree Bose & Arijita Dutta
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2017-022 The role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making in transit
Katherine Kuschminder & Khalid Koser
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2017-021 The productivity effect of public R&D in the Netherlands
Luc Soete, Bart Verspagen & Thomas Ziesemer
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2017-020 Role of WASH and Agency in Health: A study of isolated rural communities in Nilgiris and Jalpaiguri
Shyama V. Ramani
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2017-019 Innovation policy & labour productivity growth: Education, research & development, government effectiveness and business policy
Mueid Al Raee, Jo Ritzen & Denis de Crombrugghe
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2017-018 Challenged by migration: Europe's options
Amelie Constant & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2017-017 Effects of health insurance on labour supply: A systematic review
Nga Leopold, Wim Groot, Sonila Tomini & Florian Tomini
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2017-016 Post-conflict peacebuilding: A critical survey of the literature and avenues for future research
Ayokunu Adedokun
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2017-015 Emerging challenges to long-term peace and security in Mozambique
Ayokunu Adedokun
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2017-014 Transition from civil war to peace: The role of the United Nations and international community in Mozambique
Ayokunu Adedokun
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2017-013 Is innovation destroying jobs? Firm-level evidence from the EU
Mariacristina Piva & Marco Vivarelli
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2017-012 Pathways for capacity building in heterogeneous value chains: Evidence from the case of IT-enabled services in South Africa
Charlotte Keijser & Michiko Iizuka
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2017-011 Do authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development finance than democratic ones? Empirical evidence for Africa
Tobias Broich
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2017-010 U.S. and Soviet foreign aid during the Cold War: A case study of Ethiopia
Tobias Broich
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2017-009 Financing rural households and its impact: Evidence from randomized field experiment data
Tigist Mekonnen Melesse
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2017-008 Impact of agricultural technology adoption on market participation in the rural social network system
Tigist Mekonnen Melesse
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2017-007 Productivity and household welfare impact of technology adoption: Micro-level evidence from rural Ethiopia
Tigist Mekonnen Melesse
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2017-006 How development aid explains (or not) the rise and fall of insurgent attacks in Iraq
Pui-hang Wong
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2017-005 Country risk, FDI flows and convergence trends in the context of the Investment Development Path
Jonas Hub Frenken & Dorcas Mbuvi
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2017-004 Labour mobility through business visits as a way to foster productivity
Mariacristina Piva, Massimiliano Tani & Marco Vivarelli
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2017-003 Impact of the Great Recession on industry unemployment: a 1976-2011 comparison
Yelena Takhtamanova & Eva Sierminska
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2017-002 Fostering social mobility: The case of the 'Bono de Desarrollo Humano' in Ecuador
Andres Mideros Mora & Franziska Gassmann
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2017-001 The economic impact of East-West migration on the European Union
Martin Kahanec & Mariola Pytliková
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