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survey of industry (ASI). Our analysis reveals divergences between the output growth trend of these two datasets. …
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associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … strong for manufacturing firms that are more intensive in their use of services inputs. At the mean level of services input … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …
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This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a … period coinciding with significant reduction in trade barriers and rising unemployment. Despite increasing import penetration …, the paper shows that employment has increased across all manufacturing industries. Data from Egypt’s labor market survey …
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This paper provides new evidence for the servitization of European manufacturing – the trend that manufacturing firms … manufacturing industries increased in the large majority of European countries between 1995 and 2005 and between 2000 and 2005 …. Service output of manu-facturing, however, is still small compared to the output of physical products. The highest service …
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It is important to remove the discrepancies in data in the various segments of the manufacturing sector, namely …, factory, non-factory, small, medium and large-scale sectors, to have a proper estimates of the state of manufacturing. These …
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The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the Global Games approach we can solve this coordination problem and eliminate the problem of multiple equilibria. We show how appropriate information provision enhances efficiency....
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also instituted a range of policies to encourage exports, attract foreign direct investment(FDI), promote innovation, and …
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The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in autumn 1999. The Round was finally launched in Doha in 2001. Nevertheless, since the, the negotiations has faced with difficulties and deadlocks. The author argues that such...
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this gap introducing the concept of ‘Collective Local Entrepreneurship’, a reference point, a device to whom anchor the …
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questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …
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