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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
Rodrik, Dani - 2002
We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions trumps' everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, measures of geography have at best weak direct effects …
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The New Development Economics : We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn?
Rodrik, Dani - 2008
Development economics is split between macro-development economists - who focus on economic growth, international trade, and fiscal/macro policies - and micro-development economists - who study microfinance, education, health, and other social programs. Recently there has been substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722694
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Economic Development as Self-Discovery
Hausmann, Ricardo - 2002
In the presence of uncertainty about what a country can be good at producing, there can be great social value to discovering costs of domestic activities because such discoveries can be easily imitated. We develop a general-equilibrium framework for a small open economy to clarify the analytical...
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reductions in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...
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The Future of Economic Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
The question addressed in this paper is whether the gap in performance between the developed and developing worlds can continue, and in particular, whether developing nations can sustain the rapid growth they have experienced of late. The good news is that growth in the developing world should...
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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463732
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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia
Rodrik, Dani - 1997
The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has overlooked a fundamental indeterminacy in measurement. As a result, we cannot rule out the possibility that East Asia has in fact experienced a tremendous amount of technological...
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The Long-Run Behavior of Velocity : The Institutional Approach Revisited
Bordo, Michael D. - 1989
In this paper we provide evidence using annual data for the period 1880 to 1986 that institutional variables are significant determinants of velocity in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Norway. This evidence supplements our earlier findings (Bordo and Jonung, Cambridge...
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The Bretton Woods international monetary system : an historical overview
Bordo, Michael D. - 1992
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The Future of Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
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