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framework, namely, convergence, identifications of growth determinants and factors responsible of growth differences in the data …, the primary focus of this paper is on the last two. Since the use of econometrics was originally motivated by convergence …
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the long term growth rate and in the process of economic convergence between the states of Mexico, the present study … focused on the regional economic convergence process in Mexico, and the effects of economic openess. …
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This paper analyses growth and convergence on sugarcane industry in southeast Asia countries. Important questions in … this paper are whether the growth of sugar cane industry in Southeast Asia moves toward a convergence or divergence trend …, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, The Philippines, and Vietnam. The finding suggests that based on ƒÒ convergence approach …
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With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
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This paper develops a growth theory that captures the replacement of physical capital accumulation by human capital accumulation as a prime engine of growth along the process of development. It argues that the positive impact of inequality on the growth process was reversed in this process. In...
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The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of agricultural development, in horticultural societies, and less frequently among hunter-gatherers and societies at more advanced agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern...
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This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology, and population over the course...
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This paper develops a simple and practical framework for characterizing (long-run) economic growth and fluid capital accumulation under shifting technological change. The framework specifies a technological change that depends on exogenous and endogenous factors as well as the interaction...
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The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...
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capital. Also, there is evidence of improving convergence of productivity between New Zealand and Australia during the 1990’s …
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