Showing 1 - 10 of 2,429
We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994896
The question addressed in this paper is whether the gap in performance between the developed and developing worlds can continue, and in particular, whether developing nations can sustain the rapid growth they have experienced of late. The good news is that growth in the developing world should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120308
substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly … discontinuities account for a large fraction of the variation in growth rates. We suggest that salient characteristics of China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045644
Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150645
globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218837
The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324030
We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the … increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we … disaggregate among commodity types and account for the endogeneity of Chinese exports. We confirm the tendency for China's exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225046
) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023347
-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled … between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade patterns is greater South-South trade. China and India have booming demand for …-South commerce overtakes North-North flows. China's export specialization evolves rapidly over time, revealing a capacity to speed up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108243
Among the developing countries of the world, those emerging markets that have sought some degree of integration into world finance are characterized by higher per capita incomes, higher long-run growth rates, and lower output and consumption volatility. These characteristics are more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246095