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World Institute for Development Economics Research
Facility•Helsinki, Finland•
About: World Institute for Development Economics Research is a facility organization based out in Helsinki, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poverty & Population. The organization has 110 authors who have published 525 publications receiving 17316 citations.
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TL;DR: The Gompertz model of technology diffusion is estimated using data on Internet hosts per capita for the year 1995-2000 to investigate the factors which determine the diffusion of the Internet across countries.
540 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the differential ability of households to take on risky production technologies for fear of the welfare consequences if shocks result in poor harvests, and found that the lack of insurance causes inefficiency in production choices.
521 citations
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TL;DR: The authors showed that agriculture is significantly more effective in reducing poverty among the poorest of the poor (as reflected in the $1-day squared poverty gap) than non-agriculture.
481 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the causal relationship between FDI and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables.
Abstract: This paper examines the causal relationship between FDI and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables. We apply our methodology, based on the Toda-Yamamoto test for causality, to time-series data covering the period 1969–2000 for three developing countries, namely Chile, Malaysia and Thailand, all of them major recipients of FDI with a different history of macroeconomic episodes, policy regimes and growth patterns. Our empirical findings clearly suggest that it is GDP that causes FDI in the case of Chile and not vice versa, while for both Malaysia and Thailand, there is a strong evidence of a bi-directional causality between the two variables. The robustness of the above findings is confirmed by the use of a bootstrap test employed to test the validity of our results.
476 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an introduction to the papers in the special section of this edition of the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR) and discuss four papers that advance this research agenda.
Abstract: In this article we provide an introduction to the papers in the special section of this edition of the European Journal of Development Research. We start by framing the challenges posed by female entrepreneurship to the research community, note some of the findings in the literature pertaining to the cross-national understanding of female entrepreneurship, and review the existing literature on the role and experience of female entrepreneurs in developing countries. Despite progress in understanding the motivations, constraints and issues that confront female entrepreneurs, there is still substantial scope for further research. We then discuss four papers that advance this research agenda.
390 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Miguel Niño-Zarazúa | 19 | 80 | 1274 |
Henning Tarp Jensen | 19 | 51 | 1069 |
Sam Jones | 18 | 68 | 1624 |
Wisdom Akpalu | 17 | 52 | 1032 |
Channing Arndt | 17 | 40 | 1147 |
Carlos Gradín | 17 | 82 | 1475 |
Rui Benfica | 16 | 70 | 1823 |
Rachel M. Gisselquist | 15 | 48 | 682 |
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis | 15 | 43 | 915 |
Yongfu Huang | 14 | 28 | 724 |
Imed Drine | 13 | 37 | 740 |
Yoko Akachi | 12 | 18 | 636 |
Michael Danquah | 12 | 49 | 454 |
Aziz A. Karimov | 11 | 32 | 391 |
Matthew Odedokun | 11 | 25 | 480 |