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The duration of development

  • Global Economic Evolution: Knowledge Variety and Diffusion in Economic Growth and Development
  • IV Global Potentialities, Constraints and Redistributional Challenges
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The author considers the problem of the duration of development and its consequences for development assistance, in the developing as well as developed countries. Emphasis is given to the influence of development aid and it is argued that the time dimension has important policy implications and requires further thoroughgoing theoretical analysis.

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Professor Tinbergen died in 1994

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Tinbergen, J. The duration of development. J Evol Econ 5, 333–339 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01198312

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