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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions?: Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
This paper analyses convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia’s regions during the period 1995 …-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we … regional product confirm this outcome as do non-parametric estimates of convergence, namely estimates using Markov transition …
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Income Inequality in the European Union
Fredriksen, Kaja Bonesmo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276988
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Recent Trends and Structural Breaks in US and EU15 Labour Productivity Growth
Turner, Laure - 2008
convergence process in the mid-1990s. Finally, European ICT-intensive countries are shown to have structurally performed better in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444122
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Regulation, Competition and Productivity Convergence
Conway, Paul; de Rosa, Donato; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - 2006
This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The empirical results indicate that restrictive product market regulations slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across...
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From hibernation to reallocation: Loan guarantees and their implications for post-COVID-19 productivity
Demmou, Lilas - 2021
The paper analyses the role of loan guarantee programmes following the COVID-19 outbreak in alleviating firm distress as well as their broader impacts on productivity via reallocation, relying on a simulation model and econometric estimations. The simulation exercise relies on a simple cash-flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801185
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Are online platforms killing the offline star? Platform diffusion and the productivity of traditional firms
Costa, Hélia - 2021
Online platform use has grown remarkably in the last decade. Despite this, our understanding of its implications for economic outcomes is scarce and often limited to case studies and advanced countries. Using a newly built harmonised international dataset of online platforms and their use across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661010
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Mind the financing gap: Enhancing the contribution of intangible assets to productivity
Demmou, Lilas - 2021
Intangible assets are an important driver of productivity and ultimately output growth. Yet, despite their aggregate rise in the past decades, productivity has continued to grow modestly in the majority of OECD countries. This is in part because many firms – particularly young and small ones -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661025
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Raising productivity through structural reform in Brazil
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2021
The recovery from the current deep recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will require raising productivity through structural reforms. This implies a number of challenges for economic policies. With large parts of the economy shielded from competition, firms face weak incentives to become...
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How effective are different social policies in Brazil? A simulation experiment
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2021
Brazil spends around 15% of GDP on different social benefits, but within these expenditures, different benefits have different social impacts. While the small conditional cash transfer programme Bolsa Família is well-targeted to the poor and has a strong diminishing effect on inequality,...
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