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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …
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The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
Dell, Melissa - 2017
This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern … Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit …. Southern Vietnam was a peripheral tributary of the Khmer (Cambodian) Empire, which followed a patron-client model with weaker …
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Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Bai, Jie - 2013
-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We …
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Economic Growth and the Rise of Service Employment
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1980
The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises, and Industry’s share rises to a peak at about...
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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War II
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1977
During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...
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The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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The Rise of the Service Economy
Buera, Francisco J. - 2009
This paper analyzes the role of specialized high-skilled labor in the growth of the service sector as a share of the total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463825
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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts about the quality and sustainability of this service-sector growth and its implications for economic development. We show, consistent with the views of the sceptics, that while...
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