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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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provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s …
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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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Data and anecdotal evidence suggest that Japan is suffering from labor shortages, which are large in an international perspective, have a negative impact on potential growth, and reduce the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal stimulus. This paper focuses on policy options to ease Japan’s...
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New firm formation is a critical driver of job creation, and an important contributor to the responsiveness of the economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise due to an increase in local...
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The transition from plan to market has hinged on the development of a dynamic private sector that would serve as the engine of growth and employment creation. This paper examines the link between the availability of skilled workers and the creation of new private firms. Using a dynamic search...
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