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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 …

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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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Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History : A Quantitative Exploration

Buera, Francisco J. - 2010

We quantify the role of financial frictions and the initial misallocation of resources in explaining development dynamics. Following a reform that triggers efficient reallocation of resources, our model economy with financial frictions converges slowly to the new steady state--it takes twice as...

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The Fiscal Burden of Korean Reunification : A Generational Accounting Approach

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2004

This paper uses Generational Accounting to assess the fiscal impacts of Korean reunification. Our findings suggest that early reunification will result in a large increase in the fiscal burden for most current and future generations of South Koreans. The Korean reunification's fiscal impact...

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The Theory and Measurement of Macroeconomic Disequilibrium in Centrally Planned Economies

Portes, Richard - 1986

The paper considers issues in recent research on macroeconomic equilibrium in centrally planned economies. I defend the explicit aggregative , macroeconomic approach in theory, institutional relationships and measurement. It has offered a fresh, coherent framework for analysis of many CPE...

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The Economics of Price Scissors

Sah, Raaj Kumar - 1983

We analyze consequences of changing the terms of trade between agriculture and industry on capital accumulation and on welfare of workers in different sectors. The issue was central to Soviet industrialization debate and it remains important in today's developing world. Through a simple general...

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Macroeconomic Adjustment and Foreign Trade of Centrally Planned Economies

Burkett, John - 1981

This empirical study stresses the underlying macroeconomic forces which determine foreign trade flows in CPEs. The general specification includes a planners' demand equation for the volume of imports, a planners' supply equation for the volume of exports, and a rest-of-world demand equation for...

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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61

Meng, Xin - 2010

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...

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Learning the Wealth of Nations

Buera, Francisco J. - 2008

We study the evolution of market-oriented policies over time and across countries. We consider a model in which own and neighbors' past experiences influence policy choices, through their effect on policymakers' beliefs. We estimate the model using a large panel of countries. We find that there...

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