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This study compares transition processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the importance of a strong state with evolved institutional...
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This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...
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. Toffler, Baumol-McLennan and many others it is the productivity increases (growth) in general. P. Romer provides a more …
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base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links between infrastructure and productivity using South African time …
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thus its inherent capacity for productivity gains, has progressively freed labour for non-productive or service work. The …
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productivity in transition. The results that are obtained are not in support of the theoretical findings of growth theory that … human capital is a major determinant of growth and productivity. However, eventually we continue to believe that the reasons …
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employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …
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Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low …
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Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to … this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in … relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian terminals was generally greater than at overseas terminals between …
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The Information and Communication technology(ICT) environment in the economic community of west african states(ECOWAS) has changed sufficiently to warrant re-conceptualization of the earlier initiatives. Notably, many new technologies have emerged, especially in the area of wireless...
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