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Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455303
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The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
Dell, Melissa - 2017
This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern … Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit …. Southern Vietnam was a peripheral tributary of the Khmer (Cambodian) Empire, which followed a patron-client model with weaker …
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The Struggle Towards Macroeconomic Stability : Analytical Essay
Razin, Assaf - 2019
This essay offers an economic-history perspective of the long struggle towards macroeconomic stability. The paper is a broad analytical overview of major exogenous shocks and shifts in macroeconomic policy and institutions in Israel since the 1977-1985 great inflation through the global...
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....
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Growth, Macroeconomics, and Development
Fischer, Stanley - 1991
The 1980s were both the lost decade of growth for much of Latin America and Africa, and the period in which -- through the new growth theory -- macroeconomists returned to the study of growth and development. The new growth theory is production function driven and concerned primarily with steady...
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Latin American Economic Development : 1950-1980
Cardoso, Eliana A. - 1989
The paper stresses the evolutionary and adaptive experience of Latin American growth between 1950 and 1980, and provides a synthetic view by considering the sources of growth within a simple production framework. Regressions use quinquennial panel data for 18 Latin American countries.They...
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The Economist as Plumber
Duflo, Esther - 2017
As economists increasingly help governments design new policies and regulations, they take on an added responsibility to engage with the details of policy making and, in doing so, to adopt the mindset of a plumber. Plumbers try to predict as well as possible what may work in the real world,...
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Political Economy in a Changing World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...
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