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Industrial structure, appropriate technology and economic growth in less developed countries
Lin, Justin Yifu - 2009
"The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394199
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Albania - The New Growth Agenda : A Country Economic Memorandum
World Bank - 2012
Since 1998 Albania has experienced an important transformation that has lifted it into the ranks of upper middle income countries and has allowed a sharp reduction in poverty. Growth averaged more than 6 percent per year between 1998 and 2010, the best performance in Europe. This helped to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550717
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Brazil : The New Growth Agenda, Volume 1. Policy Briefing
World Bank - 2013
During the last century, Brazil was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Between 1901 and 2000, Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita grew at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent. Brazil's long-run growth has rivaled that of counties such as South Korea, universally...
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Endogenous and Modern Innovations : Differing Perspectives
World Bank - 2012
This notes paper touches on Ethiopia's being one of nine countries Involvement in the international network PROLINNOVA (Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams in different agro climatic zones. The paper goes on to mention exhibition of local and modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012555823
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Air pollution during growth : accounting for governance and vulnerability
Hamilton, Kirk - 2004
"New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522951
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India : Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges, Volume 2. Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability, What Are the Tradeoffs?
World Bank - 2013
This report provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution, including particulate matter and lead; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor … sanitation, and hygiene; (iii) indoor air pollution; and four natural resource damage categories: (a) agricultural damage from …
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Reducing the Footprint of Growth
World Bank - 2014
Reducing the footprint of growth requires a focus on three key issues: a) transforming urban areas into greener, more efficient, resilient, and socially inclusive cities, better able to capture the economic benefits associated with urbanization; b) ensuring sound management of the brown...
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Poverty, Growth, and Environment in Brazil : Spatial Insights for Policymaking
World Bank - 2013
This report examines the implications of spatial heterogeneity - the uneven distribution of poverty, growth, and environmental assets - for policy. Its goal is to inform a wide set of policies that are either explicitly spatially targeted or may have unanticipated spatial implications. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557689
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Republic of Ecuador Country Environmental Analysis : Environmental Quality and Natural Resource Management for Sustained Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation
World Bank - 2013
Ecuador is a country with exceptional natural resource and environmental advantages and challenges. It is strategically located and has considerable oil reserves in the interior and the coastal region. This document does not aim to describe the state of the environment in Ecuador. Rather, its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557798
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Export variety and country productivity
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004
"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the set of goods exported by each sampled country relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522922