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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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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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Service Value Chains and Effects of Scale
Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007
This paper generalizes Porter’s notion of the value chain for the analysis of service industries. The generalization entails that the flow and the physical transformation and assembly of goods that are characteristic of manufacturing are generalized into flows and transformation of data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090762
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Improving diagnostics for aflatoxin detection:
Harvey, Jagger; Gnonlonfin, Benoit; Fletcher, Mary; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850555
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Market interdependence and volatility transmission among major crops:
Gardebroek, Cornelis; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Robles, Miguel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of volatility between the corn, wheat, and soybean markets … in the United States. Volatility interactions across markets, if they exist, may lower the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850569
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Co-movement of major commodity price returns: A time-series assessment:
de Nicola, Francesca; De Pace, Pierangelo; Hernandez, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the degree of co-movement among the nominal price returns of 11 major energy, agricultural, and food commodities using monthly data between 1970 and 2013. The authors study the extent and the time evolution of unconditional and conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886774
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Time Path of Price Adjustment in Domestic Markets of Non-tradable Staples to Changes in World Market Prices
Badiane, Ousmane; Goudan, Anatole; Tankari, Mahamadou … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
prices via the response of traded commodities in domestic markets. It shows that the impact on local prices of shocks … originating in global markets lasts much longer than suggested by findings in the traditional literature on market integration … staple foods markets. The results suggests that it takes much longer for the impact of shocks on local prices to stabilize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258871