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In much of the literature on economic development, sustained economic growth is expected to be accompanied by several …"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such transitions are usually accompanied by a transition in the economic … economic well-being. In this paper, we examine the Indian economy using the only available household-level pan-India panel data …
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-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …
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importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … different approaches. Secondary data analysis tells us that high value manufacturing in India exists only in islands. Cross … analysis and case study interviews help us arrive at recommendations on mapping the future of high value manufacturing in India. …
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The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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forces of housing demand development along the rural to urban transition. Eventually, when identified, these forces can be … triggered in a way that enables urban growth to contribute to agglomeration benefits. This paper adds to the previous IPE …China's central government has rightfully recognized that successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation …
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levels of development, which contributes to the continent's lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives … effect on manufacturing performance than the level and growth of real wages. The results have important implications for …Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar …
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In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern …
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, to enhance countries' growth. I argue that the relationship between stock markets and growth is exaggerated and that the … simple act of opening a formal stock market is not a good predictor of whether a country will experience economic growth …. While it is possible that in some instances opening a stock market can lead to increased growth, I do not find any evidence …
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of industrialization affected the transition to modern growth and has brought about changes in the ranking of countries … beneficial in early stages of development, generated in later stages a hurdle for human capital accumulation and economic growth …This research suggests that the distribution of land within and across countries affected the nature of the transition …
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development. …
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