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Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India

Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022

investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …

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Looking Back on the Lessons of 'Higher Education and Developing Countries : Peril and Promise': Perspectives on China and India

Bloom, David E. - 2016

focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …

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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

De Mel, Suresh - 2015

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

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Human Capital Persistence and Development

Rocha, Rudi - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

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ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries : New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India

Basant, Rakesh - 2015

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …

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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...

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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Distance to the North

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...

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The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting

Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2010

-adjusted index of labor services. We find that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth decreases significantly when using the latter … method. This means that when using the alternative method one explains more of the growth in labor productivity than what a …

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The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development

Arias, Javier - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...

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