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Industrial policy is tainted with bad reputation among policymakers and academics and is often viewed as the road to perdition for developing economies. Yet the success of the Asian Miracles with industrial policy stands as an uncomfortable story that many ignore or claim it cannot be...
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This paper reviews recent developments in the theoretical and empirical analysis of balance-of-payments crises. A simple analytical model highlighting the process leading to such crises is first developed. The basic framework is then extended to deal with a variety of issues, such as:...
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Only a few European economies and Korea and Taiwan Province of China reached high-income status during 1970-2010. Malaysia’s real income per capita increased to 26 percent of the U.S. level in 2010 from 20 percent in 1970. Despite relatively strong growth and a substantial improvement in...
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This paper examines the effect of skill-biased technological change on the structure of wages, the composition of … employment and the level of unemployment in a two-sector economy with a heterogenous work force. Efficiency wage considerations … of skilled workers and reduce aggregate employment as well as the employment level of unskilled workers in that sector …
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real cash balances on impact and exerts an expansionary effect on output, despite an increase in real wages …
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A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...
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the level of efficiency wages and the relative rent captured by skilled workers …
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spillovers on firms is particularly strong in terms of employment and value added …
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inequality are characterized by dynamism-a drive toward sophisticated export industries, innovation, and creative destruction and …
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We provide an overview of the theories and empricial evidence on the complex relationship among innovation, competition …, and inclusive growth. Competition and innovation-led growth are critical to drive productivity gains and support broad …-based growth. However, new technologies and trends in market concentration are stifling future innovation while contributing to the …
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