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The World Development Report (WDR) for 2021 will focus on Data for Development. This topic comes at a critical time for development. We find ourselves amid revolutionary changes in how we collect, manage, curate, analyze and use data. It’s claimed that more data was created in 2015 and 2016 than in all previous years combined. Fixed internet traffic is expected to double, mobile internet.
Economic History and Economic Development: New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect Peter Temin NBER Working Paper No. 20107 May 2014 JEL No. N01,N10,O11,O15 ABSTRACT I argue in this paper for more interaction between economic history and economic development. Both.
The Research Question The purpose of this research study is to examine the impact roles of youth support and development programs play in the economic mobility of at-risk youth. Our nation’s economic mobility crises are affecting families in a major way. In 2013, low-income families contained 23 percent of children under the age of 18 who live in the United States. However, 33 percent of.
The Development Research Institute (DRI) is home to a team of researchers and students. Through their work, they seek to expand the number and diversity of serious commentators on economic development, primarily in emerging economies but also in the western and developed world. Critical scholarship has been created on foreign aid and its often negative impact. A key goal of DRI is to have a.
Development economics is distinctive in its method of analysis rather than in its predictions. This module will develop methods of rigorous economic analysis that may be applied to problems particular to developing economies. Topics will include: (1) economics of growth and applications to developing countries; (2) education, human capital and endogenous growth; (3) institutions and policies.
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is part of the United Nations University (UNU). UNU-WIDER, the first research and training centre to be established by the UNU, is an international academic organization set up with the aim of promoting peace and progress by bringing together leading scholars from around the world to tackle pressing.
Browse research from the latest Oxford Economic Papers Symposium on Inequality. Articles discuss selective schooling systems, increased income inequality in advanced economies since the 1980s, and the impact of wealth on children’s exposure to environmental pollutants. Read the Symposium for free online until the end of May 2020.