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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
Rodrik, Dani - 2002
world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …
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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
Jacks, David S. - 2008
What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464507
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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
Broda, Christian - 2006
in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466154
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2007
globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464960
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter - 2005
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467057
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What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2014
We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as it has moved from low...
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China--the past experience and the future prospects. Our...
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The Link Between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development
Keller, Wolfgang - 2013
The paper introduces a framework for studying the hierarchy of growth factors, from deep to more immediate. The specific setting we examine is 18th and 19th century Germany, when institutional changes introduced by reforms and transportation improvements converged to create city growth. We...
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in GDP/capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2011
/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … 2009, changing Northern and Southern shares in world trade which fall for the North from 82.3% to 64.4% and rise for the … time. In contrast the North-China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using …
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International Trade and Innovation
Akcigit, Ufuk; Melitz, Marc J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …
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