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The trade impact of China on EMU : is it even across members?
Mikkelsen, Uffe; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2012
This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009622526
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The Trade Impact of China on EMU : Is It Even Across Members?
Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2012
This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395707
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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436763
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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?
Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021
Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796816
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Crop selection and international differences in aggregate agricultural productivity
Alvarez, Jorge A.; Berg, Claudia - 2019
A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103617
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Importing inputs for climate change mitigation : the case of agricultural productivity
García-Verdú, Rodrigo; Meyer Cirkel, Alexis; … - 2019
This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009267
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Structural transformation and the agricultural wage gap
Alvarez, Jorge A. - 2017
A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors … speaks against the existence of large short-term gains from reallocating workers out of agriculture and favors recently … gap level observed and its decline as the economy transitioned out of agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781284
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Women's opportunities and challenges in Sub-Saharan African job markets
Dieterich, Christine; Huang, Anni; Thomas, Alun - 2016
alternative avenue to escape low-paid jobs in agriculture, but the increase in per capita income is lower than male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711532
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Trade and Industrialization in Developing Agricultural Economies
Vamvakidis, Athanasios - 1999
This paper examines the impact of international trade on industrialization in developing agricultural economies. The findings show that developing agricultural economies that increased their openness during 1970-95 experienced an increase in their share of industrial production at the expense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400546
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Special Agricultural Safeguards : Virtual Benefits and Real Costs-Lessons for the Doha Round
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2005
paper argues that, in violation of the spirit of the WTO Agreement in Agriculture, the special agricultural safeguards have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400731