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decoupling. See economic cycles and trend decoupling de la Torre, Augusto, 143 Dell’Ariccia, G., 124, 216n2 Democratic Republic of Congo. See Congo, Democratic Republic of democratization, 7 demographic trends age of population, 47–48n3, 290–91, 358, 401–3, 402f demographic explosion, 280–85, 281–82t, 292t demographic hourglass, 280, 281–82t, 285–88, 292t demographic implosion, 280, 281–82t, 290–91, 292t demographic transition, 280, 281–82t, 288–90, 292t, 328 gender equality, 279–93. See also gender equality population loss, 358, 358f Devarajan, Shantayanan, 323 developed countries. See high-income countries; OECD countries developing countries, 31–49 autonomous sources of growth, 3–4, 39–47 labor migration, 43–45 leverage in private and public balance sheets, 39–41 technologies, 41–42, 59–63 trickle-down growth, 45–47, 46f commodities exports. See commodities correlation with economic cycles of developed countries, 74 cyclical coupling and trend decoupling, 3, 26n1, 32–34, 32–34f, 74–75 public expenditures. See public expenditures remittances to, 298, 299t. See also remittances
services trade, 86 switchover to growth locomotives of, 2–3, 38–39, 39f, 374–75 trade growth, 85, 86f, 88–89. See also trade development banks, 156–57 devolution, 12, 189–90. See also decentralization diaspora bonds, 309, 310b Di Giovanni, J., 68, 81n1 Dinsdale, G., 173 disengagement. See trust in government disintermediation, 134, 139n12 diversification, 5, 70, 75–76, 88, 90, 152 Doha Round, 69 Dubai. See also United Arab Emirates (UAE) financial crisis, 379 remittances, 303, 304, 305–6, 311 Dutch Disease, 6, 108–11, 110f, 113, 115, 116n2, 246 Dutz, Mark A., 51
E Ease of Doing Business index, 381 East Asia and the Pacific, 331–49. See also specific countries climate change challenges, 21, 343, 346–47 common regional agenda, 343–48, 344–45f crisis of 1990s, 137, 214 diversity of, 336, 337f economic development, 20–21, 331–33, 332–33t education enrollment and completion rates, 288 fiscal policies, 334–36, 335f hunger reduction, 256, 257f income disparity, 344, 345f industrial policy, 97n1
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