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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456671
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
Harrison, Ann - 2009
In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463389
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455303
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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience
Young, Alwyn - 1994
This paper documents the fundamental role played by factor accumulation in explaining the extraordinary postwar growth of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong Kong) investment rates have risen rapidly in all four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474252
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The Industrialization of South America Revisited : Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010
Paolera, Gerardo della - 2018
We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia … industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single explanation of how specific shocks or policies shaped the … industrialization of the region, our argument is that the timing of the industrial take off was linked to initial conditions, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453369
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U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts : From Mexico to LTCM
Stulz, Rene M. - 2000
This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock market distinguishes between banks with exposure to a crisis country and other banks. In general, banks with exposures to a crisis country are affected adversely by currency events...
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Large Devaluations and the Real Exchange Rate
Burstein, Ariel - 2004
large devaluation episodes: Argentina (2001), Brazil (1999), Korea (1997), Mexico (1994), and Thailand (1997). We conduct a …
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Moderate Inflation
Dornbusch, Rudiger - 1991
Inflation persists at moderate rates of 15-30 percent in all the countries that successfully reduced triple digit inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. In this paper we first set out theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475091
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Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2008
According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries? growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If "getting policies right" is wrong or infeasible,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464385
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Growth Strategies
Rodrik, Dani - 2003
This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468644