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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333237
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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884109
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies TFP as the right summary measure of welfare (even in situations … (industries or firms) to aggregate welfare using readily available TFP data. Based on this finding, we compute firm and industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269431
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Productivity and the welfare of nations
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2012
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286892
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541274
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Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies TFP as the right summary measure of welfare (even in situations … (industries or firms) to aggregate welfare using readily available TFP data. Based on this finding, we compute firm and industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514853
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The Plant-Level View of Korea's Growth Miracle and Slowdown
Lee, Munseob; Shin, Yongseok - 2023
We analyze the evolution of the plant size distribution, static allocative efficiency, and business dynamism of the Korean manufacturing sector during its growth miracle (1967–2000) and the subsequent slowdown since 2000. The average plant size has an inverse-U pattern over time, uncorrelated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469672
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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Barrientos Quiroga, Paola Andrea; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - 2015
This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513147
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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212565
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … step forward occurring following Deng Xiaoping’s “South Trip” in 1992. We find that FDI had much larger effect on TFP …, direct effect of human capital on TFP growth. This direct effect is hypothesized to come from domestic innovation activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822282