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What Does South Africa's Pattern of Trade Say About its Labor Markets?

Subramanian, Arvind - 2001

This paper examines the factor intensity of South Africa''s trade. The conclusion is that South Africa is revealed though its trade pattern to be capital abundant (relative to labor). Surprisingly, this result holds especially for South Africa''s trade with its high income partners, which should...

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Dynamic Gains From Trade : Evidence From South Africa

Subramanian, Arvind - 2000

trade and TFP growth both over time and across sectors …

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From ""Hindu Growth"" to Productivity Surge : The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition

Rodrik, Dani - 2004

This paper explores the causes of India''s productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic reforms were initiated. Trade liberalization, expansionary demand, a favorable external environment, and improved agricultural performance did not play a role. We find evidence...

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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development

Subramanian, Arvind - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for...

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Addressing the Natural Resource Curse : An Illustration From Nigeria

Subramanian, Arvind - 2003

Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their … could fundamentally improve the quality of public institutions and, as a result, durably raise long-run growth performance …

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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?

Rajan, Raghuram - 2005

We examine the effects of aid on growth-- in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid … evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no …: what aspects of aid offset what ought to be the indisputable growth enhancing effects of resource transfers? Thus, our …

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What Undermines Aid's Impacton Growth?

Subramanian, Arvind - 2005

aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies. We look for a possible offset to the …

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