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Liberalization of trade in financial services is good (or not) for economic growth in developing countries.
February 13, 2010 - 1:06 pm
Tags: developing countries, economic growth, financial services, liberalization of trade
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Bellow, I provide arguments to oppose the liberalization proposition.
As provided in 4a, the argumentation confronting the liberalization in financial service is basically based on the doubt that financial repressions by central bank over financial institutions is really exist. Just to repeat the argument, for instance, the worry that the financial repression will weaken the saving [...]
Relation between Economic Growth and Inflation
February 13, 2010 - 1:04 pm
Tags: economic growth, IMF, inflation, world bank
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What is the theory and empirical evidence on the relationship between economic growth and inflation.
Economic growth and inflation are both positively correlated. This means that inflation is one of the inherent economic growth’s features. Along. Hamilton (1952) claimed that inflation is an important stimulant for creating growth and Rostow (1960) also argued that inflation is [...]
Financial Liberalization
February 13, 2010 - 12:55 pm
Tags: financial liberalization, Keynessian, McKinnon, Shaw
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From the perspective of economic development, provide two arguments in favour of AND two against financial liberalization?
The arguments that underpin financial liberalization are basically based on the idea that there are various kinds of financial repressions applied by central bank over financial institutions that can be harmful for development. The leading proponents for this view [...]
Intensification of international trade leads to environmental degradation and resource depletion in developing countries.
February 13, 2010 - 12:49 pm
Tags: developing countries, environmental degradation, international trade
Posted in Development Economics, Environment | No comments
Provide three arguments in favour AND three against this proposition.
Intensification of international trade leads to environmental degradation and resource depletion in developing countries because of: (i) developing countries tend to specialize in ‘dirty industries’ that Multi-national corporations (MNCs) transfer their pollution intensive production facilities to poorer countries, because of the uncontrolled environmental regulations or even [...]
The three P mantra (People, Planet, Profit)
February 12, 2010 - 3:29 pm
Tags: Environment
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The three P mantra (People, Planet, Profit) conceptualizes sustainability in the social, economic and environmental domains. Argue against such a broad conceptualization of sustainability that goes beyond the environmental sphere.
The three P mantra “People, Planet, and Profit” describe the triple bottom lines and the goal of sustainability. Sustainability is a topic that has become more [...]
What is meant by formal and informal regulation of environmental policy
February 12, 2010 - 3:21 pm
Tags: environment regulation
Posted in Development Economics, Environment, Policy Analysis | No comments
Under what circumstances can they be complementary to each other?
Formal regulation is environmental policy regulated by government institution which has formal (law & institutional) consequences. The first formal regulation is policy that seek to harness the positive links between development and environment including: (i) policy of building on the positive links which means many [...]
Backwash and Spread Effect
January 14, 2010 - 4:43 pm
Tags: backwash effect, corruption, disparities, inequality, labor intensive, rural urban migration, spread effect
Posted in Development Economics, Policy Analysis, Poverty Alleviation | No comments
What are the causes and consequences of ‘backwash’ and ‘spread’ effects? What type of public policies can correct any imbalances between the two effects, inter-regionally within a country
Once economic and social forces occur in favored region, development produce tendencies toward disequilibrium, the differences in living standards may persist and even widen over time. Myrdal propose [...]
Why Technical change in developing countries is mainly ‘labour-saving’
January 13, 2010 - 1:27 pm
Tags: capital intensive, core periphery, Education, Innovation, labour saving, technical change, technical progress, world economy
Posted in Development Economics, Education, Innovation | No comments
Technical change in developing countries is mainly “labour-saving”: how is this an outcome of and in turn shapes (i) core-periphery structure of the world economy, and (ii) relative factor endowments of developing countries themselves?
In developing countries, we expected the use of more labor intensive in industrial sector as labour more abundant than capital, thus labor’s [...]
How Can Development Worsen Inequality (for some) ?
January 13, 2010 - 10:41 am
Tags: adelman and morris, dualism, English, growth, industrialization, inequality, kuznets, urban bias, washington concensus
Posted in Development Economics, English, Poverty Alleviation | No comments
How can development worsen inequality and destitution (for some)? What role can public policy play in mitigating these negative impacts?
The development process tends to apply industrialization as the engine of growth. This is to be expected for increasing returns to scale in industry, both static economies of scale when mass production of commodities can be [...]
Measuring Poverty and Inequality
January 13, 2010 - 10:36 am
Tags: gini index, head count index, inequality measure, poverty gap, poverty line, poverty measure, theil index
Posted in Development Economics, English, Poverty Alleviation | No comments
There are several kinds of poverty and inequality measuring tools, here are three ways to measure poverty and two measures of income inequality.
The World Bank defines poverty as inability to attain minimum standard of living. The first way to measure poverty is by defining poverty line or poverty threshold which measures minimum living standards based [...]