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Productivity Growth and Structural Reform in Bulgaria : Restarting the Convergence Engine

Mitra, Pritha - 2012

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural problems in its labor market, reflected in its...

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Transforming Non-Renewable Resource Economies (NREs)

Battaile, Bill - 2015

This paper provides an empirical benchmarking of growth, productivity and export patterns for developing NREs against other low and middle income developing countries, to inform policy discussions and future analytical work. There is stark heterogeneity in the association of resource sector and...

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Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

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Women are Key for Future Growth : Evidence from Canada

Petersson, Bengt - 2017

How important are female workers for economic growth? This paper presents empirical evidence that an increase in female labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian provinces over 1990-2015, we found that a 1 percentage point...

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Chronicle of a Decline Foretold : Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point?

Das, Mitali - 2013

China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape. Within a few years the working age population will reach a historical peak, and then begin a precipitous decline. This fact, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages...

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Tax, Welfare, and Pension Reforms in Slovenia : Implications for Work Incentives and Labor Participation

Egoumé-Bossogo, Philippe - 2010

The labor participation rate in Slovenia has been lower than in the EU-15 (the members states prior to May 2004), particularly for the low-income and older individuals. Using simulations of tax and social benefits and public pensions, the paper shows how the current tax, welfare, and pension...

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Africa Rising : Harnessing the Demographic Dividend

Drummond, Paulo - 2014

Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The accompanying increase in its working age population creates a window of opportunity, which if properly harnessed, can translate into higher growth and yield a demographic dividend. We...

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Cyber Risk Surveillance : A Case Study of Singapore

Goh, Joseph - 2020

illustrates these techniques by applying them to Singapore. As an advanced economy with a complex financial system and rapid … adoption of fintech, Singapore serves as a good case study. We place our results in the context of recent cybersecurity …

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Experiences with Macroprudential Policy — Five Case Studies

Darbar, Salim M. - 2015

Zealand, Singapore, and Sweden). The case studies describe the institutional framework, its evolution, the use of …

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Singapore's Export Elasticities : A Disaggregated Look into the Role of Global Value Chains and Economic Complexity

Arbatli, Elif C. - 2016

Singapore is one of the world's most open economies, with the size of its trade reaching about 350 percent of its GDP …. With the rise of highly diversified cross-border production networks, Singapore has come to play an integral role in the …, using disaggregate industry/product level trade data, we revisit Singapore's export elasticities and find that growing …

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