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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross; Beck, Thorsten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force … growth. The data do not, however, confidently support the conclusions that SMEs exert a causal impact on growth. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830798
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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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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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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production: Two Centuries of International Evidence
Madsen, Jakob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth models. This paper constructs a measure of health … the quantity and quality of schooling, innovations and growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821776
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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
with both a marked increase in the relative size of the government sector as well as sustained economic growth. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037674
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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
Caselli, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
in the efficiency with which capital is used?" Hence, it does for the cross-section what growth accounting does in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050273
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Chinese Outwards Mercantilism – the Art and Practice of Bundling
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Zheng, Huanhuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) brought to the fore the limits of the Chinese export led-growth strategy and the need … for Chinese rebalancing. The Chinese export-led growth strategy of the 2000s coincided with the country becoming one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252665
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007
Bénétrix, Agustín S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the … industrial catching up, defined as the tendency of less industrialized countries to post higher per capita manufacturing growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163839
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Meier, Stephan; Kast, Felipe; Pomeranz, Dina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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