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Does Child Marriage Matter for Growth?
Mitra, Pritha - 2020
marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the …
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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth : Evidence from Industry-Level Data
Bertay, Ata Can - 2020
resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality … women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal … effect of gender inequality on industry growth in value-added and labor productivity. Our findings show that gender …
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Canada's Potential Growth : Another Victim of the Crisis
Estevão, Marcello M. - 2011
This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada's potential GDP growth. Using a simple accounting framework to decompose trend GDP growth into changes in capital, labor services and total factor productivity, we find a sizeable drop in Canadian potential growth in...
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Competition, Competitiveness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cherif, Reda - 2020
Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question by using country-and firm-level data for a sample of 39 sub-Saharan African countries over 2000-17, as well as other emerging market economies and developing countries, and...
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Macroeconomic Policy, Product Market Competition, and Growth : The Intangible Investment Channel
Ahn, JeaBin - 2020
While there is growing evidence of persistent or even permanent output losses from financial crises, the causes remain unclear. One candidate is intangible capital - a rising driver of economic growth that, being non-pledgeable as collateral, is vulnerable to financial frictions. By sheltering...
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China's Productivity Convergence and Growth Potential-A Stocktaking and Sectoral Approach
Zhu, Min - 2020
China's growth potential has become a hotly debated topic as the economy has reached an income level susceptible to the 'middle-income trap' and financial vulnerabilities are mounting after years of rapid credit expansion. However, the existing literature has largely focused on macro level...
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Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income and Economic Growth
Aiyar, Shekhar S. - 2019
We posit that the relationship between income inequality and economic growth ismediated by the level of equality of … mobility to confirm that thenegative impact of income inequality on growth is higher the lower is intergenerationalmobility … literature on income inequality andgrowth has been so inconclusive …
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Reinvigorating Growth in Belize
Vasilyev, Dmitry - 2019
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Belize grew faster than its regional peers. By the mid-2000s, however, economic growth had slowed down to the regional average. A vicious circle of low growth and increasing public debt has been clouding Belize's outlook. This paper applies a growth diagnostic...
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Determinants of Inclusive Growth in ASEAN
Alekhina, Victoriia - 2020
rates, but income inequality has not retreated. This research aims at identifying factors which could contribute to more …
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E-Commerce as a Potential New Engine for Growth in Asia
Kinda, Tidiane - 2019
The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and generate a larger share of their revenues from...
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