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We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the changes in these countries' sectoral export shares...
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has fueled the believe that industrial policies are an absolute requisite to diversify exports. This paper, however, does …-country heterogeneity in targeted exports, and four fifths together with horizontal policies. Australia, Chile, and New Zealand emerge as …
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Largely because of its vast copper reserves, Chile's exports are highly concentrated on this low complexity product and … the country's success in developing non-mineral and complex exports. This achievement is remarkable considering its … this paper, this accomplishment reflects Chile's strength in policy areas that foster non-mineral exports (including …
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This paper presents a set of collaborative filtering algorithms that produce product recommendations to diversify and optimize a country's export structure in support of sustainable long-term growth. The recommendation system is able to accurately predict the historical trends in export content...
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. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50 percent of variation in exports is along the extensive margin-a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50 percent on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …
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trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and …
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provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s …
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This paper explores the impact of political and institutional variables on public investment. Working with a sample of 80 presidential and parliamentary democracies between 1975 and 2012, we find that the rate of growth of public investment is higher at the beginning of electoral cycles and...
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Achieving France's medium-term fiscal targets will require significant expenditure efforts. This paper identifies areas where there is scope for increasing expenditure efficiency, with a view to achieving higher quality and more sustainable fiscal consolidation. The methodology is based on a...
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