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Exports and Economic Development
Villanueva, Delano - 1993
A robust empirical determinant of long-term economic growth in many developing countries has been the expansion and diversification of the export sector. The latter, in turn, has been influenced by capital accumulation and economic growth. The growth model developed here explores this...
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The Global Impact of Demographic Change
Callen, Tim - 2006
The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over the next 80 years for Japan, the United States, other industrial countries, and the developing regions of the world using a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium...
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Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution
Chamon, Marcos - 2006
regions, such as Africa, likely hinge on the sufficiently rapid development of China and India …
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The demographic dividend : evidence from the Indian states
Aiyar, Shekhar; Mody, Ashoka - 2011
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The Demographic Dividend : Evidence From the Indian States
Mody, Ashoka - 2011
makes progress by focusing on India, which will be the largest individual contributor to the global demographic transition …-state migration. The results imply that a substantial fraction of the growth acceleration that India has experienced since the 1980s … demographic dividend could add about 2 percentage points per annum to India’s per capita GDP growth over the next two decades …
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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and the Federal Budget
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper considers the implications of the prospective aging of the U.S. population for the social security system and concludes that the large and growing cashflow surpluses of the social security trust funds should be saved to help insulate living stands against this change. A number of...
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Income inequality in small states and the Caribbean : stylized facts and determinants
McIntyre, Meredith A.; Bejar, Pablo; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; … - 2021
Rising income inequality has emerged as a major policy issue facing policymakers, but there is a dearth of empirical work on inequality in small states, including the Caribbean. Despite data limitations, the empirical analysis using a sample of small states finds that increased openness and...
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Does child marriage matter for growth?
Mitra, Pritha; Pondi Endengle, Eric M.; Pant, Malika; … - 2020
Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between child...
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Technological progress, artificial intelligence, and inclusive growth
Korinek, Anton; Schindler, Martin; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021
Advances in artificial intelligence and automation have the potential to be labor-saving and to increase inequality and poverty around the globe. They also give rise to winner-takes-all dynamics that advantage highly skilled individuals and countries that are at the forefront of technological...
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The role of productivity, transportation costs, and barriers to intersectoral mobility in structural transformation
Karayalçin, Cem; Pintea, Mihaela - 2015
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