Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 562
Cover Image
Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011
development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. … a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284033
Cover Image
Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies
Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003
to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263207
Cover Image
Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007
a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were … characterized the agricultural stage of development. The lack of cultural diffusion and its manifestation in cultural rigidity … industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318954
Cover Image
India's economic growth: From socialist rate of growth to Bharatiya rate of growth
Virmani, Arvind - 2004
details of the various phases of development and the role thatgovernment and government monopoly has played in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807532
Cover Image
The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321368
Cover Image
Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318983
Cover Image
Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013539
Cover Image
For a fair and effective industrial climate transition: Support measures for heavy industry in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany
Bollen, Yelter; Van Hauwaert, Tycho; Beys, Olivier - 2021
Europe's industrial base needs to undergo a swift and persistent transformation towards carbon neutrality and circularity, but this transition must happen in a fair and socially just manner. In this working paper, we evaluate the support mechanisms for heavy industry which have been put in place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565946
Cover Image
Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? The problem of India´s unbalanced growth
Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2007
It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … development pattern in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321626
Cover Image
Services Trade and Policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009
general pattern of productivity growth and industrial development. This paper surveys the literature on services trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294845