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Development Traps
Built on the research of Professor Paul Collier. 4 development traps are: conflict, reliance on natural resources, being landlocked with bad neighbours and bad governance/institutions.
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Development Economics - Ten Key Thinkers
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EdExcel Paper 3 Synoptic Essay Question on Brazilian Growth and Development
Exam Technique Advice
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Corruption and the Natural Resource Curse in the DRC
28th April 2022
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Edexcel Paper 3: Synoptic Essays on Economic Development in Ghana
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Opportunity Cost - How Car Tires Displaced Thousands Of People
19th March 2022
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Development Barriers - Asymmetric Impact of Climate Change
14th January 2022
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Development Economics - Building Environmental Resilience
15th December 2021
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DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars
9th November 2021
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Mining and Development - Pathways to Sustainable & Inclusive Growth
19th October 2021
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Economic Development - Pacific Islands face lost decade
29th September 2021
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Diversifying Jamaica’s economy in the post-pandemic world
13th August 2021
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How China dominates Pacific mining, logging and fishing
3rd June 2021
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DRC’s rich soil bears few riches for its miners
17th May 2021
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Lucrative rubies might bring a resource curse
11th February 2017
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Ha Joon Chang on Under-Development
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Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital
9th March 2021
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Primary Product Dependence - 2021 Revision Update
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Campaigners urge IMF to sell gold to provide debt relief
12th October 2020
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Direct cash transfers and cutting extreme poverty in Yemen
22nd September 2020
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Economics of Deforestation
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Could Africa one day rival China?
8th April 2020
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The impact of conflict on long term development
28th February 2020
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Rising obesity as a barrier to development
9th February 2020
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Growth and Development Profile: Mozambique
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Can Mozambique close their rural infrastructure gap?
31st January 2020
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Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? (Ha-Joon Chang)
9th January 2020
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Who has really benefited from Liberia's miracle oil?
5th January 2020
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Development Contrasts: Youth Unemployment
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Development Contrasts: Health Outcomes
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Development Economics Success Stories from 2019
31st December 2019
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Development Contrasts: Gender Inequality
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Growth and Development Profile: Bangladesh
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Growth and Development Profile: Rwanda
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Growth and Development Profile: Cambodia
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Growth and Development Profile: Angola
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Development Focus: Farming and Extreme Working Poverty
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Development in Action – Great African Examples
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Growth and Development Economics – Country Profiles
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Barriers to Development - KAA and Evaluation Paragraphs
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Tackling childcare in Sri Lanka
12th February 2019
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Long Read: Travelling along Highway BR-163
1st August 2018
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Development barriers - child labour in tobacco
25th June 2018
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Getting to Equal in Mongolia's Labour Market
20th June 2018
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Barriers to Economic Development (June 2018 Update)
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Sub Saharan Africa Development Report 2018
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Poverty and Pollution: Growing up in the world's most polluted cities
3rd February 2018
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Development Economics: Cocoa Profits and Pension Funds
21st October 2017
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Ethiopia - Economic Growth and Development
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