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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence

Lederman, Daniel - 2009

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of...

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Learning-by-doing, learning-by-exporting, and productivity : evidence from Colombia

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2005

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current … exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …

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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency? : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994-2001

Vodopivec, Milan - 2004

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Trade, capital accumulation, and structural unemployment : : an empirical study of the Singapore economy

Hoon, Hian Teck - 2004

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Poor places, thriving people : how the Middle East and North Africa can rise above spatial disparities

2011

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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility

Lall, Somik V. - 2009

"How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities -...

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Nonlinear effects of altitude on child growth in Peru : a multilevel analysis

Gragnolati, Michele - 2006

"Growth at high altitude has been the object of many investigations after experimental studies on animals showed that hypoxia at high altitude slows growth. Many studies have also looked at the Andean populations and found different results. Even though a few studies find that individuals living...

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Half a world : regional inequality in five great federations

Milanovic, Branko - 2005

"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of entities with substantial economic autonomy. Two types of...

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Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China

Amiti, Mary - 2005

"The authors examine the determinants of entry by foreign firms using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic geography, focuses on market and supplier access within and outside the province of entry, as well as...

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Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia

Deichmann, Uwe (contributor) - 2005

"How effective are public interventions in addressing significant regional disparities in formal manufacturing concentration in a developing economy? Deichmann, Kaiser, Lall, and Shalizi examine the aggregate and sectoral geographic concentration of manufacturing industries for Indonesia, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522721

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