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Structural change and innovation as exit strategies from the middle income trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350349
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916217
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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164495
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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic
Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022
This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013347147
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857
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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243470
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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900319
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Asabiyya : re-interpreting value change in globalized societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901779
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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide : recent longitudinal evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012
significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic … ; property rights ; ethnic heterogeneity ; globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534885
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588683