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North-South trade-related technology diffusion : virtuous growth cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2010

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Brain drain and productivity growth : are small states different?

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion, with education, and with the interaction between the two, and...

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North-South technology spillovers : the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

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Education, governance and trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2004

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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...

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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...

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Deconstructing China's and India's growth : the role of financial policies

Aziz, Jahangir (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts that the price of capital may have been significantly...

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India's macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000

Acharya, Shankar N. (contributor) - 2008

The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The first section briefly summarizes key … to deal with the challenge of the unprecedented surge in external capital inflows into India. The final section outlines … India in macroeconomic policy and coping with a weak international economic environment. -- Economic growth ; inflation …

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Emerging through technological capability : an overview of India's technological trajectory

Ray, Amit Shovon (contributor) - 2008

India’s emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least … present an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological … capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s economic progress. Our conclusion is that while India has …

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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective

Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008

manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

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