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The need to construct an effective strategy for industrial development in low-income countries has been largely ignored by development economists because industrial policies have failed in many developing countries. This does not imply, however, that industrial development cannot be promoted....
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...
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India's manufacturing sector has undergone many spatial adjustments since 1989, including, for example, the organized sector's migration to rural locations, the powerful rise of informal manufacturing within cities, and the development of intermediate cities for manufacturing. This paper...
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Die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Städten hängt zunehmend von ihrem Potential an modernen und innovativen Dienstleistungen ab. Die Anerkennung dieses Sachverhalts und seine Nutzung für die Erarbeitung von Strategien zur Stärkung der Wirtschaftskraft hat dazu geführt,...
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Die quantitative Bedeutung, die unternehmensbezogene Dienstleistungen inzwischen erreicht haben, und ihre Funktion im gesamtwirtschaftlichen Produktionsprozeß machen deutlich, daß die Auffassung, die Industrie sei sozusagen der Motorwagen und die unternehmensbezogenen Dienste der Anhänger,...
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Geschäftliche Transaktionen im Internet gewinnen an Bedeutung. Insbesondere "Online-Shopping", das Einkaufen im Netz, wird immer populärer. Die Autoren identifizieren und untersuchen die Faktoren, die in den USA zum Erfolg solcher Angebote beitragen, und fragen, inwiefern sie auf den deutschen...
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"This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce...
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