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  • 20-October-2023

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    DIT Strategies transformational European development

    The transitions towards a greener and more digital future are reshaping our world across various domains. The green transition to more sustainable production and consumption systems seeks to match economic productivity with a low emissions path.

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  • 20-October-2023

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    DIT Strategies transformational European development

    The transitions towards a greener and more digital future are reshaping our world across various domains. The green transition to more sustainable production and consumption systems seeks to match economic productivity with a low emissions path.

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  • 17-July-2013

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    DEV Working Paper No. 318: How redistributive is fiscal policy in Latin America? The case of Chile and Mexico

    Fiscal policy plays an essential role in reducing income inequality in OECD countries while this effect tends to be lower in Latin American economies. This paper adds to the discussion by looking at the issue from a tax-benefit analysis perspective; namely by estimating the impact of the welfare system on the different income groups in Chile and Mexico.

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  • 20-November-2012

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    Dev Centre Working Paper No. 315 - What drives tax morale?

    The paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants of tax morale in developing countries. The paper provides an overview of the literature and a summary of the empirical evidence of the socio-economic and institutional drivers of tax morale, based on perception surveys such as the World Values Survey, as well as regional surveys like Afrobarometer, Asiabarometer and Latinobarometro.

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  • 20-November-2012

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    Dev Centre Working Paper No. 314 - On the relevance of relative poverty for developing countries

    The process of shifting wealth has altered the way we think about poverty reduction, social development and the measurement of progress. The decade of the 2000s was the first to witness unconditional convergence across countries in a generation as poor countries, led by China and India grew faster than the advanced economies of the OECD.

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  • 16-May-2012

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    Industrial Policy and Territorial Development: Lessons from Korea

    This report reviews the Korean catching up and analyzes the recent reforms which have been put in place to address the territorial dimension in the design and implementation of industrial policies, with a view to share knowledge and policy experience with emerging and developing economies.

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  • 15-September-2010

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    DEV Working Paper 293: Rethinking the (European) Foundations of Sub-Saharan African Regional Economic Integration: A Political Economy Essay

    Support for regional economic integration in Africa runs high amongst the continent’s international development partners and African elites. However, its expression in European forms of economic integration is not appropriate to regional capacities and in some cases may do more harm than good. This lacuna is exacerbated by technical and theoretical analyses rooted either in economics or international relations literatures. This paper

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  • 21-January-2010

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    DEV Working Paper No. 285: The emerging middle class in developing countries

    The shift in global goods production towards Asia is well documented. But global consumer demand has so far been concentrated in the rich economies of the OECD. Will that also shift towards Asia as these countries get richer?

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