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Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
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, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …
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Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing …
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Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge … employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college … educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business …
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This paper sets out the political economy behind Asian governments' participation in a revived Bretton Woods System. The overriding problem for these governments is to rapidly integrate a large pool of underemployed labor into the industrial sector. The principal constraints are inefficient...
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-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …
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remain small. We estimate the parameters of the model using firm-level data for India and the United States. We study the …
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biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
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Every firm in a developed economy relies on the mere existence of countless other firms to keep prices competitive up and down all supply chains. Without this network externality, no firm forms; and without many firms, no network forms; locking in a low-income trap. Business group governance...
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, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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