Why poor countries need nuclear research capacity

Why Are Poor Countries Poor ?

We attempt to explain why standard explanations of the poverty of nations are unsatisfactory. We first argue that human capital is low in poor countries because its production has increasing returns with respect to life expectancy. We then show that the reason why capital does not flow to poor countries (the Lucas paradox) can readily be explained once market prices rather than PPP prices are u...

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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Why Are Ethnically Divided Countries Poor?

This paper presents a dynamic game with capital accumulation of war between ethnic groups. Ethnically divided countries are more prone to fighting wars and the threat of war reduces income. Ethnic divisions lead to pressure for the government to redistribute resources from some ethnic groups to other groups. Groups fight each other to control redistribution policy. The model can account for 70 ...

Why we need qualitative research.

" Building Poor Countries ' Trade Capacity " John Whalley

This is a background paper prepared for an informal expert meeting of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD. It discusses technical assistance on trade for the least developed and poorer countries and tries to explore alternative partnership approaches for building new trade capacity. It focuses on trade policy more than on trade promotion strategies. The paper identifies four differ...