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Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
Morck, Randall; Nakamura, Masao - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' -- the coordinated rapid growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005579952
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Deal with the Devil: The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in a 15 percent increase in the attendance of the medical staff. Health outcomes improved, with a 16 percent increase in the delivery of infants by a doctor and a 26 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950742
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross; Beck, Thorsten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830798
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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
Caselli, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass attempt at organizing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050273
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Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works
Engerman, Stanley; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
The Erie Canal was a mammoth public works project undertaken largely because the scope of the investment was beyond …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037674
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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production: Two Centuries of International Evidence
Madsen, Jakob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821776
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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624571
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China's Foreign Trade: Perspectives From the Past 150 Years
Keller, Wolfgang; Li, Ben; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper studies the trade of China in the past 150 years, starting from the first opening of China after the Opium … War. The main purpose of the paper is to identify what is (and was) China's 'normal' level of foreign trade, and how these … levels changed under different trade regimes, from 1840 to the present. We present new evidence on China's foreign trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727846
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Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
Atkin, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms, the years 1986-2000, altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across municipalities to show that school dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674282
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Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
A model is proposed to describe the evolution of real GDPs in the world economy that is intended to apply to all open economies. The five parameters of the model are calibrated using the Sachs-Warner definition of openness and time-series and cross-section data on incomes and other variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050434