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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data
Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021
institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …
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Economic globalisation and Africa's quest for greener and more inclusive growth : the missing link
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292764
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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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Identity, beliefs, and political conflict
Gennaioli, Nicola; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019 - This version: July 2019
globalization or cultural changes may induce voters to switch identities, dampening their demand for redistribution and exacerbating …
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Cross-border patenting, globalization, and development
LaBelle, Jesse; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023
We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and … strong, positive impact of policy and globalization on cross-border patent flows, especially from North to South. A …
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Trade openness and growth : a network-based approach
Duernecker, Georg; Meyer, Moritz; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2021
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the study of international trade that leads to a measure of country openness that is quite different from the various alternatives proposed by the received literature. In contrast to these, our measure does not use indicators of aggregate trade...
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The role of the state in economic development
Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
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The farmer, the blue-collar, and the monk : understanding economic development through saturations of demands and non-homothetic productivity gains
Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André; Le Bris, David - 2018 - This draft: April 9, 2018
To explain the process of development historically documented, we consider a model with three economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of agricultural and manufactured goods. Our parsimonious...
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