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the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In the two decades since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work on this question, new research has tried to overcome the various methodological problems that have plagued previous...
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a quantitatively large acceleration in the growth rates of developing countries. Eliminating existing developed world …
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There is still disagreement among economists concerning how a country's international economic policies and its rate of economic growth interact, despite a number of multi-country case studies utilizing comparable analytical frameworks, numerous econometric studies using large cross-country data...
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productivity growth. It is found that countries that are more open to the rest of the world have experienced faster growth in total … liberalization efforts is documented and the effect on productivity and exports is investigated …
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controversy continues today, even as the world is experiencing an unprecedented period of trade liberalization, and in spite of …
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We examine the growth promoting roles of R&D, international R&D spillovers, and trade in a world econometric model. A …
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This paper presents an endogenous growth model of an open economy in which the growth rate of income is higher if foreign capital goods are used relatively more than domestic capital goods for the production of capital stock. Empirical results, using cross country data for the period 1960-85,...
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The unusually rapid and prolonged growth of both output and exports in the Newly Industralizing Countries of East Asia …
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characteristics into two groups, those primarily important for agriculture and those primarily important for trade, we find that the … agriculture variables have relatively more explanatory power in countries that developed early and the trade variables have … agriculture today. We explain this apparent puzzle in a model in which two technological shocks occur, one increasing agricultural …
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