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Genetics and predictive or personalized medicine, open-access tests : news and prospects. …
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Abstract Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of …
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Abstract In recent years, modern economic thinking has emphasized institutions and political economy dimensions as crucial determinants of development processes. At the same time, there has also been some renewed interest to understand the connections …
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Abstract Given the current realities in the poorest countries of the world, I will ask whether (and how) aid effectiveness and the overall quality of development policy making can be improved by some of the recent newer areas of development economics, …
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Documents and media Download Jean-Philippe Platteau's biography …
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Abstract Based largely on work done by the World Bank, the world community focused on $1 per capita per day as the critical metric for poverty measurement, and the MDGs formulated halving of world poverty using this measure as a central goal. Continuation …
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Documents and media Download Carlos Winograd's biography …
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Moderator : Carlos Winograd …
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Abstract One sector models of growth do a poor job accounting for the variety of growth experience around the world. Newer approaches hark back to the dual-economy tradition of development economics, emphasizing the dichotomy between the traditional and …
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