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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
Braga de Macedo, Jorge A.; Pereira, Luis Brites - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and … that trade openness drives convergence and export diversification in Western Africa (which is becoming more diversified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727868
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Takeoffs
Aizenman, Joshua; Spiegel, Mark M - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper identifies factors associated with takeoff -- a sustained period of high growth following a period of stagnation. We examine a panel of 241 "stagnation episodes" from 146 countries, 54 % of these episodes are followed by takeoffs. Countries that experience takeoffs average 2.3% annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778403
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?
Comin, Diego; Ferrer, Martí Mestieri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
they are adopted. Using data from the last two centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969422
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On the Measure of Distortions
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Abstract The paper considers formally the mapping from distortions in the allocations of resources across firms to aggregate productivity. TFP gaps are characterized as the integral of a strictly concave function with respect to an employment-weighted measure of distortions. Size related...
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Learning From the Doers: Developing Country Lessons for Advanced Economy Growth
Chari, Anusha; Henry, Peter Blair - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
From 1980 to 1992, emerging and developing countries grew by 3.4 percent per year. Their annual rate of growth increased to 5.4 percent between 1993 and 2012. No such increase occurred for advanced nations, whose average growth from 1980-2012 was roughly constant (excluding the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950775
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
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The Role Of Intangible Capital in the Transformation and Growth of the Chinese Economy
Hulten, Charles R.; Hao, Janet X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
also looks beyond the growth accounting framework to the role of saving rates and long-run convergence in shaping longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950989
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Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting
Lagakos, David; Moll, Benjamin; Porzio, Tommaso; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use international household-survey data to document that experience-wage profiles are flatter in poorer countries than in richer countries. We find a quantitatively similar pattern when we estimate returns to foreign experience by country of origin among U.S. immigrants. The most likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951163
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An African Growth Miracle?
Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Africa's recent growth performance has raised expectations of a bright economic future for the continent after decades of decline. Yet there is a genuine question about whether Africa's growth can be sustained, and if so, at what level. The balance of the evidence suggests caution on the...
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