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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 answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production and efficiency. It answers the question "how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to...

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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

foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624571

Industrial Policy and Competition

Harrison, Ann E.; Legros, Patrick; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as...

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When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

Comin, Diego; Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with the frontier technology. In relatively poor countries, catching up with the frontier requires the...

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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...

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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,...

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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 what a private firm could manage during the early 19th century. As with most public works, there were ample opportunities for public officials to realize private gains from the...

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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...

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Development, Structure, and Transformation: Some Evidence on Comparative Economic Growth

McCord, Gordon C.; Sachs, Jeffrey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We suggest that the geographical patterns of income differences across the world have deep underpinnings. We emphasize … characteristics of economies. Per capita incomes differ around the world in no small part because of sharp differences across regions … middle income; the distribution of economic activity around the world today; the patterns of growth between 1960 and 2010 …

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The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound

Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a non-parametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our...

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