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Economic Development Across the Globe

Monday, 13 October 2014: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Chair:
Laura Reese, Michigan State University—USA
Public investment in downtowns: Financing models for local business districts
Laura Reese, Michigan State University—USA; Gary Sands, Wayne State University—USA; Pierre Filion, University of Waterloo—Canada
Child labor in Indonesia: Households response to income shocks
Alejandro Mina Calvo, Clark University—USA
Public procurement as innovation policy: The case of the Swedish combat aircraft Gripen
Gunnar Eliasson, Royal Institute of Technology—Sweden
Economic development and political challenges in Malawi
Gordon L. Brady, University of North Carolina–Greensboro—USA
Economic impact of the good neighbor policy of the EPA
Stephanie Bardwell, Christopher Newport University—USA
Discussants:
Alexandru Cojocaru, The World Bank—USA ; Melissa Trussell, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University—USA and Miguel D. Ramirez, Trinity College—USA