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significantly associated with productivity growth for poor but not for rich countries. This effect operates entirely through TFP …, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with the frontier technology. In relatively poor … must be adapted. In such a country, local saving matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it allows the …
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to knowledge creation, a feature based on endogenous growth theory. We analyze the link from resource income future …
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This paper examines the time path of consumption and asset ownership in a small open economy. Productive physical capital is borrowed when limited liability firms write debt contracts with foreign lenders. We study three lending regimes and find that when contracts favor domestic agents over...
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that the impact of higher inequality on the aggregate human capital stock, and thus, on growth is positive under rather …
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We investigate the causal links between human capital, openness through trade and FDI, and economic growth using …-led growth and export-led growth, as well as the reverse linkages from growth to FDI and exports. The importance of human capital …, after controlling for domestic investment, government expenditure and imports, support for FDI-led growth is not as strong …
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We discuss the role of contracting impediments created by the existence of national borders on open economy growth. In … a two-good neoclassical Ramsey growth model with lack of enforcement on international trade contracts we show that … many researchers believe, international trade affects growth by increasing investment rates. The model provides a new …
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Countries rich in natural resources constitute both growth losers and growth winners. We claim that the main reason for …
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mineral stocks on public revenues, labour movements between sectors, and economic growth in an attempt to elucidate the poor …
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in migration patterns for the growth and distribution of world income and population using a model with endogenous … poverty and increasing world growth. …
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novelty requirement and its effect on growth an trade. I consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two regions. The … to be a useable instrument to promote innovation and growth, and also a strategic trade policy instrument. I numerically …
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