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What Makes Cities More Competitive? Lessons from India

Ghani, Ejaz; o'Connell, Stephen D.; Kerr, William R. - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2014) 132, pp. 1-4

Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to accelerate spatial development, make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. These are commendable goals given that city populations in developing countries are expected...

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Highways and Spatial Development

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2013) 131, pp. 1-6

This Economic Premise examines the link between highways and spatial development. The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project in India—5,846 km of highways linking four major urban hubs—improved the connectivity and market accessibility of districts close to the highway compared to those...

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Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade ﬂows, in a world with … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …, dynamically, intensiﬁed globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …

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Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - 2019

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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