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inequality are characterized by dynamism-a drive toward sophisticated export industries, innovation, and creative destruction and … a high level of competition. What a country produces and how much it competes domestically and internationally are …
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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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Canada, but integration between Canada and the rest of the world is partial. Provincial trade balances respond only about … half as much to events in the rest of the world as they do to events within Canada. In short, national borders appear to …
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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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We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. We first set out some key facts, and provide a conceptual framework to help analyze whether such disparities are efficient, or instead reflect market and/or policy failures. We examine whether policy attempts to reduce...
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Policy makers in the MENAP region have been formulating policies and designing programs to develop small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with a view to create jobs and achieve inclusive growth. But while the programs have helped increase the number of enterprises, growth of SMEs continues to...
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China''s rapid overall growth since 1978 masks significant differences in relative economic performance across its provinces. This paper finds that, while per capita income of poor provinces are catching up with those in the rich, the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...
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Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question … emerging market economies and developing countries, and finds that an improvement in domestic competition is associated with a … productivity growth. Price levels, including of essential items, are also generally lowered with an increase in competition …
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policy could strengthen longer-term growth, particularly so where strong product market competition prevents firms from self … policy through the intangible investment channel, and its complementarity with pro-competition product market deregulation …
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The paper investigates the economic effects of major product market reforms in some of the historically most protected non-manufacturing industries. It relies on a unique mapping between new annual data on reform shocks and sector-level outcomes for five network industries (electricity and gas,...
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