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This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter-related questions. Why do cities form in an economy, with so much of economic activity in countries geographically concentrated in cities? Second, how do different types of cities...
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This book discusses China's integration into the world economy, drawing on papers previously written by the editor. It … driving China's growth.While other books on China do not focus much on China's integration into the world economy, this book … provides technically strong analyses of key contributing factors to China's growth performance. It also highlights innovation …
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This paper uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind widely differing economic growth in Russian regions. Using data of 77 regions for 1993-2004, it separately examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998, and for the period of strong...
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sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …
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regulation have a significant impact on both labour and total factor productivity. States in which the regulatory environment … restricts competition have lower productivity growth in comparison to states in which regulation is more supportive of … of product market regulation is necessary to improve productivity growth further and ensure that the benefits of reform …
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labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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Following Solow's (2001) recent advice, this paper takes productivity as the left-hand-side variable and offers a cross … productivity estimates, and the second stage is devoted to analyzing these estimates. The paper classifies productivity … productivity model developed in this paper allows space for productivity determinants of all these different types and hence may …
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sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …
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