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Diversification, Dutch disease, and economic growth : options for Uganda

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2014 - This Version: November 14, 2014

Natural resource discoveries, even when fairly modest in terms of the revenues they are expected to generate, can have significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no different from other oil-rich countries. In five...

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All these worlds are yours, except India : the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal

Defever, Fabrice; Reyes, José-Daniel; Riaño, Alejandro; … - 2017 - This version: March 16, 2017

This paper evaluates the effect on firm-level export outcomes of the Cash Incentive Scheme for Exports program provided by the Government of Nepal. The analysis utilizes customs-level data for 2011-14, combined with information on the subsidy payments made to individual firms provided by the...

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Branding Vietnam : a product space analysis of how export diversification can shape up the country's sustainable and innovative growth

Tran, Luong Thanh; Freytag, Andreas - 2025

Vietnam’s path to sustainable and innovative growth increasingly depends on how effectively it diversifies and repositions its export portfolio in the global market, or how the country “brand” itself through its exports to the world. Using data from UN Comtrade, we construct the Product...

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Market access and the evolution of within plant productivity in Chile

Bas, Maria (contributor); Ledezma, Ivan (contributor) - 2007

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Volatility and diversification of exports : firm-level theory and evidence

Vannoorenberghe, Gonzague; Wang, Zheng; Yu, Zhihong - 2014

We show using detailed firm-level Chinese data that, among small exporters, firms selling to a more diversified set of countries have more volatile exports, while the opposite holds among large exporters. This result, which stands in marked contrast to standard portfolio theory for small...

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Where you export matters: measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets

Fang, Jianchun; Gozgor, Giray; Pekel, Sercan - 2020

Using data from the World Uncertainty, World Trade Uncertainty, and World Pandemic Uncertainty indices for 142 countries, this paper introduces three new indicators for measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets from the first quarter of 1996 to the first quarter of 2020. The indicators...

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Pound for pound export diversification

Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2020

We propose a short-run model of the extensive margin of trade and deploy it to distinguish and quantify domestic and cross-border margins. Our empirical focus is on the domestic extensive margin of trade (domestic distribution of a product) and its importance for quantifying policy and...

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Industrial policy and the great divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023

, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …

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The quantitative importance of openness in development

Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2013

stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology - be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … an open economy increases the rate of capital formation and speeds up the pace of industrialization relative to a closed …

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Black and white Body Mass Index values in developing 19th century Nebraska

Carson, Scott Alan - 2013

Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased,...

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