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This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production vary inversely with their technological effort....
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Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s -- the regionalisation of supply chains. Before 1985, successful industrialisation meant building a domestic supply chain. Today, industrialisers join supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored...
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For Africa, a regional customs union is unlikely to realise net welfare gains (in the sense of trade creation dominating trade diversion) which cannot be attained through unilateral trade liberalization. Unilateral reform has often failed in Africa, however. A regional customs union tied to...
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Given the sluggish progress in multilateral trade negotiations Southern and Eastern African negotiators are likely to focus their attention on the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union. This paper analyses possible advantages and disadvantages for ACP countries...
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If South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are to become constructively engaged in the next attempt by World Trade Organization (WTO) members to liberalize trade multilaterally, they need to be convinced that there will be sufficient gains from trade reform to warrant the inevitable costs of...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … productivity, to a ‘Marxian’ zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given … creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …
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This Paper examines the impact of imported technologies on productivity for a sample of developing and transition … technology and its impact on domestic productivity for a set of manufacturing sectors. The technological level of the machines … productivity growth in manufacturing depends positively on the type of machines imported in a given industry. Consequently …
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As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge … additional resources that flow to high-productivity firms after the reforms. We show that some of these resources do not come … from abroad, but instead from domestic low-productivity firms that are driven out of business as a result of the reforms …
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IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …
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Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...
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