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This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Among these, domestic financial reforms, and trade reforms, are robustly associated with economic growth, but...
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While India’s growth has been strong in recent decades, its structural transformation remains incomplete. In this paper, we first take stock of India’s growth to date. We find that economic activity has shifted from agriculture to services, but agriculture remains the predominant employer....
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This paper provides a broad empirical analysis of the determinants of post-conflict economic transitions across the world during the period 1960?2010, using a dynamic panel estimation approach based on the system-generalized method of moments. In addition to an array of demographic, economic,...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EMPIRICAL METHODOLOGY AND SAMPLE -- III. GROWTH AND FISCAL ADJUSTMENT IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES: SOME STYLIZED FACTS -- IV. ECONOMETRIC MODEL RESULTS -- V. QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF COUNTRY EXPERIENCES -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- References.
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This paper studies structural changes underlying China's remarkable and unprecedented growth in recent years. While … patterns of structural transformation across China's provinces are broadly in line with international experience, one important … labor productivity in the rest of the economy and services has widened across China's provinces as they have moved from low …
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This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward … existing and new services as well as reorienting the production of tradable goods toward domestic markets. In China's case … paper shows that while rebalancing China's growth toward a domestic-demand-led economy would likely raise aggregate e …
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Over the past decade, China's growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China's supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …
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We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...
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This paper studies the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth. Structural coherence is defined as the degree that a country's industrial structure optimally reflects its factor endowment fundamentals. The paper found that at least for the overall capital, the shares of capital...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN INCOME -- III. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS -- IV. RESULTS -- V. IMPLICATIONS AND DISCUSSION -- VI. CAVEATS -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.
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