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1 online resource (484) |
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Cover13; -- Contents -- ABOUT THIS BOOK -- INTRODUCTION -- OPENING ADDRESS -- OPENING ADDRESS -- OPENING ADDRESS -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- Trade and Investment -- Trade and Economic Performance: Does Africas Fragmentation Matter? -- Protectionist Policies and Manufacturing Trade Flows in Africa -- COMMENT -- Crisscrossing Globalization: The Phenomenon of Uphill Skill Flows -- COMMENT -- Migration, Remittances, and the Transition from Foreign Aid -- The Aid-Migration Trade-off -- COMMENT -- Are Remittances More Effective Than Aid for Improving Child Health? An Empirical Assessment Using Inter- and Intracountry Data -- COMMENT -- The Role of Emigration and Emigrant Networks in Labor Market Decisions of Nonmigrants -- COMMENT -- Higher Education and High-Technology Industry -- The Role of Higher Education in High-Technology Industrial Development: What Can International Experience Tell Us? -- COMMENT -- African Higher Education and Industry: What Are the Linkages? -- COMMENT -- An Arrested Virtuous Circle? Higher Education and High-Technology Industries in India -- COMMENT -- Human Development -- Health and Socioeconomic Status: The Importance of Causal Pathways -- The Household Impacts of Treating HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries -- COMMENTS -- John Strauss -- Political Economy -- When Is Public Expenditure Pro-Poor? -- The Political Economy of Public Service Provision in South Asia -- COMMENT -- CLOSING REMARKS -- CLOSING REMARKS |
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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 |
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Economic assistance -- Congresses
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Economic development -- Congresses
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Economic assistance.
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Economic development.
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Economic history.
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Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
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Developing countries.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Justin, Yifu Lin.
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Pleskovic, Boris.
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