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Structural change in Argentina, 1935–60: The role of import substitution and factor endowments
Debowicz, Dario; Segal, Paul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
This paper investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and … relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. ISI gave a substantial boost to manufacturing but primarily at the expense of nontraded services, rather than of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132737
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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries
Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752685
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Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance
Long, Cheryl; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476187
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The evolution of an industrial cluster in China:
Fleisher, Belton; Hu, Dinghuan; McGuire, William; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"We use two rounds of surveys, taken in 2000 and 2008 in the Zhili Township children's garment cluster in Zhejiang Province, to examine in depth the evolution of this industrial cluster. Firm size has grown on average in terms of output and employment, and increasing divergence in firm sizes has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987174
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Determinants and implications of the growing scale of livestock farms in four fast-growing developing countries:
Delgado, Christopher L.; Narrod, Clare A.; Tiongco, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"The rapid growth in consumer demand for livestock offers an opportunity to reduce poverty among smallholder livestock farmers in the developing world. These farmers' opportunity may be threatened, however, by competition from larger-scale farms. This report assesses the potential threat,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037838
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Credit constraints, organizational choice, and returns to capital: Evidence from a rural industrial cluster in China
Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
industrialization and economic growth. In reality, micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can undertake low … widely available in rural China, thereby supporting industrialization even in the absence of a well-functioning capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038001
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Finance and cluster-based industrial development in China:
Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
industrialization over the past several decades, which has occurred in the absence of well-functioning financial markets, seems to defy … explain China's rapid industrialization in the absence of an efficient financial market." from Author's Abstract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038113
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The evolution of Chinese entrepreneurial firms: Township-village enterprises revisited
Xu, Chenggang; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Township-village enterprises (TVEs) were a major engine of China's rapid rural industrialization in the past three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038129
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The role of clustering in rural industrialization: A Case Study of the Footwear Industry in Wenzhou
Huang, Zuhui; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhu, Yunwei - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
capital and technology in the incipient stage of industrialization." from Authors' Abstract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038150
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Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: Evidence from handloom enterprises in Ethiopia
Ali, Merima; Peerlings, Jack; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
industrialization when local conditions do not allow easy access to credit. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862357