urbanisation in developing countries

• What Became of the Food Price Crisis in 2008?

... to high food prices in more than 60 developing countries (von Braun 2008, p. 6). Governments and ... in non-agricultural activities and urbanisation increased as well. Both factors added to growing s...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 65 Num. 1, Mars 2010

• Prospects for Skills-Based Export Growth in a Labor-Abundant, Resource-Rich Developing Economy

In an integrated global economy, specialisation in trade is an increasingly prominent strategy. A labor-abundant, resource-rich economy like Indonesia faces stiff competition in labor-intensive manufactures; meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for resources from China and India exposes it to the 'curse' of resource wealth. This diminishes prospects for more diversified growth based on renewable resources like human capital. Using an international panel data set we explore the influence of resource wealth, foreign direct investment and human capital on the share of skill-intensive products in exports. FDI and human capital increase this share; resource wealth diminishes it. We use the results to compare Indonesia with Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia's reliance on skill-intensive export...

... for the lessons it may offer to other countries. One of the world's poorest and least promising ec... example, it is hard to imagine that urbanisation is anything but an endogenous response to other ec...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 63 Num. 4, Décembre 2008

• Mega-trends: predicting the future has many guises: there's weather forecasting, betting on sport, the stock market or currencies. However, the world of business relies on more accurate forecasting to plan for possible developments. When a development's impact is likely to last for 10 years or more, it is commonly known as a mega-trend.

..., technology, demographics, urbanisation and migration must be considered when planning sus...Developing countries, including Brasil and India, are expecte...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Message concernant la continuation de la coopération technique et de l'aide financière en faveur des pays en développement

... revenu assujettis au stress (Low Income Countries under Stress, LICUS). - Biens publics globaux: la ... d'années, de voir le processus d'urbanisation prendre fin, ne s'est pas réalisé. Il s'agissait... More Advanced Developing Countries and Territories . §. §. Guinea. §. Ho...

• Feuille Fédérale num. 26, 8 juillet 2003
• Seccion Unica