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Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community
Sanya, Sarah; Gaertner, Matthew - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650623
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Competition and Firm Productivity; Evidence From Firm-Level Data
Schiffbauer, Marc; Ospina, Sandra - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations … competition and our measures of productivity. We also find that countries that implemented product-market reforms had a more … pronounced increase in competition, and correspondingly, in productivity: the contribution to productivity growth due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470387
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De-Monopolization toward Long-Term Prosperity in China
Ahuja, Ashvin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
has encouraged more competition in merchandise manufacturing and heavy industries while barriers to market access remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242303
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Technological paradigms, regimes and trajectories: Manufacturing and service industries in a new taxonomy of sectoral patterns of innovation
Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper presents a new sectoral taxonomy that combines manufacturing and service industries within the same general framework. This exercise is relevant because it seeks to achieve a greater integration between the study of sectoral patterns of innovation in manufacturing and services, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693542
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The internationalization of firms in the service industries: channels, determinants and sectoral patterns
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
channels seem to be complement, rather than substitute, strategies to compete in foreign markets; (3) sectoral specificities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693544
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Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries:
Haggblade, Steven; Hazell, P. B. R.; Reardon, Thomas - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
"The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996727
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Sector-Level Productivity, Structural Change, and Rebalancing in China
Nabar, Malhar; Yan, Kai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper studies structural changes underlying China's remarkable and unprecedented growth in recent years. While patterns of structural transformation across China's provinces are broadly in line with international experience, one important difference is in labor productivity differentials...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790282
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Structural change and the growth of industrial sectors: empirical test of a GPT model
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates the empirical relevance of a model of structural change and the growth of industrial sectors. The model analyses the process of diffusion of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) and how this affects the dynamic performance of manufacturing and service industries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765937
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Accelerated growth and structural transformation: Assessing Ghana’s options to reach middle-income status
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Yu, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The Government of Ghana has declared its new development goal of reaching middle-income status by 2015. Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132791
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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
development of its financial sector. Assessment of recent government initiatives to develop capital markets has been presented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243724