Do Migrants Transfer Productive Knowledge Back to Their Origin Countries?
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2016/12 – Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI); Études et Documents n° 22; Author: Jérôme Valette
This paper analyses whether international migrants contribute to foster innovation in developing countries by inducing a transfer of productive knowledge from destination to the migrants’ home countries.
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Comparing Structure and Organisation of Development Bureaucracies in Europe: A Pilot Study of European Aid Administrations
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2016/12 – German Development Institute, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE); Discussion Paper 27/2016; Author: Thomas Henökl
This study analyses the organisational structure, interaction patterns and the particular roles of decision-makers within public administrative bodies to identify and explain goal conflicts, diverging preferences and variation in administrative decision behaviour. |
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State-Society Relations and the Dilemmas of the New Developmentalist State
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2016/12 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton; IDS Bulletin 47.2A; Author: Evelina Dagnino
This article argues that the new developmental state has ended up by draining the potential of participatory democracy, which had brought together hopes for inclusive and sustainable development policies and had announced a new alliance between state and society through which rights could be ensured and democracy deepened.
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On the Heterogeneous Effect of Trade on Unemployment
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2016/12 – Foundation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI); Working Paper 180; Authors: C. Carrere, M. Fugazza, M. Olarreaga and F. Robert-Nicoud
This article shows that trade reduces unemployment in countries with comparative advantage in sectors with more efficient labor markets and leads to higher unemployment in countries with comparative advantage in sectors with less efficient labor markets.
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A Good Gig? The Rise of On-Demand Domestic Work
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2016/12 – Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Development Progress Working Paper 07 + Executive Summary; Authors: Abigail Hunt and Fortunate Machingura
On-demand work is not automatically empowering, and can shift risk from employers onto domestic workers themselves. This report proposes that urgent action be taken to ensure that the ‘Uberisation’ of domestic work evolves to the benefit of all.
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New research on Migration
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